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Oh, man, how do I pick only five?
Venus Boy, by Lee Sutton.
Here Is Your War, by Ernie Pyle
The Exile Waiting, by Vonda McIntyre (there is some hope for this one)
The Overloaded Ark, by Gerald Durrell
Snakes: The Keeper and the Kept, by Carl Kauffeld
I guess that shows I have pretty eclectic taste in books!
There are probably hundreds of books (many of them long out of copyright) that I'd like as ebooks, and hundreds more that are available, but only DRM-restricted, and I will not buy a DRM-restricted book in principle.
Plus there are whole series I'd love to have as ebooks, but I'm not about to pay for them again, having already bought them as pbooks, and certainly not at twice the price I've already paid for the pbook, and DRM-locked besides.
What I'd really like to see some publishers do is run a trade-in system, where they (perhaps working in conjunction with large chain bookstores) would allow readers to exchange their pbooks for the corresponding ebooks for a nominal fee, then indelibly mark the books (punch holes, maybe?) so they couldn't be traded in again, and donate them to charity programs, libraries, schools, military libraries, or wherever else they'd do some good. Something like that would promote ebooks, promote reading, promote their authors, produce a small amount of revenue, and get them advertising and goodwill they couldn't buy at any cost. Plus it would make my library a whole lot less of a threat to the floor joists.
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