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Yesterday I bought a paperback for my son-in-law. Opening it I found that even with my relatively strong reading glasses I would have a choir reading the print in that book. I opened up my copy of Michener’s The Source, a book I had read years ago with no trouble. Oh-my-gosh, same ultra-small print! Then I tried Churchill’s The Gathering Storm. I was thinking of reading this again. No way! Print’s too tiny. These are books I bought, read, enjoyed and kept on my shelf for many years. Now I wonder why?
Visiting this site for a few years I have read folks posting how they like paper books because they want to always have them available. Really folks, “always” is a long time and your eyes, like almost everybody else, will suffer.
I have giving away or chucking many of my old books. Keep those "E" editions. You will be able to read them years from now when the print on your paper library has shrunk.
Reading the advertisements for eReaders I seldom, if ever, see them boast of the readability for us older folks. But this, to me, is the primary advantage of eBooks. I just ordered the Kindle DXG.
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