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Originally Posted by rabbie
Why are we using ebooks at all when we can generate £2-£3 per book for charity when we have finished with our hard copy books.?? I donate all my books to the British Heart Foundation who then sell them for the above sum. They are the purchased and read by someone who hopefully takes them back so that they can be sold again. You cannot do this with ebooks so therefore we should bin all the ebook readers and get back to print. The fact that a lot of ebooks are the same price or more expensive than the printed copy only makes this argument more vaid
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When I finish reading a book, any book, be it made of paper, a digital file, a huge miniated tome, a plate made of brass or the rosetta stone, I keep it. Because I re-read it, and because I think that my sons and daughters (when I'll have sons and daughters) will want to read some of them, just like I did with my mother's books.
And there are many books that I read, re-read, and keep re-reading. Really a lot. So, ebooks are space-savers for me, because otherwise I wouldn't know where to keep them.
Also, I don't know of any charity around here which would accept used
fiction books, usually charities accept
school books where I live.