I come here to pick fights with people that use capital letters for names of the threads
Now seriously.
I started reading e-books long ago when I exhausted all viable supplies of paper books in English here. That was some 15 years ago.
Until now, I haven't met (I mean personally) anybody else that would have keen interest in e-books, e-book reading devices, technology, e-book related gossip and speculation ... So. If I want to discuss e-books, where else can I go?
And besides, Mobileread is an extremely well informed, friendly and pleasant place to be. Even the most vicious flamewar I have seen here is very tame by any standards and moderators usually step in quickly to steer conversation into calmer waters.
Recently I realized that I like to meet authors here on MobileRead. I like when authors come, perhaps offer a freebie AND join discussion here. Such books offered directly by an author usually jump to the top of my ToBeRead queue.
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Originally Posted by BookishMom
I like that it's not as commercial as some of the other ebook sites I visit, and especially that moderators/owners don't go in and edit people's messages to add affiliate links whenever and wherever possible.
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One of forums that I visit very occasionally started to have that annoying advertising mouse-over, double underlined links.
As I have stated many times, this is *my* computer and it will do *exactly* what I tell it to do. I started to investigate. I even looked at the html source, and I was very surprised there were no links to ads there. I finally cornered a suspect - a Java script, or something like that. I have installed Firefox addon called YesScript, blacklisted the site and ... annoying ad-links disappeared ;-)