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Originally Posted by Bobstad
This electronic alternative as far as I can see offers no comparable experience; instead entirely devoted to capitalist greed and heavy manipulation and indoctrination to try to get us to believe in plutocratic monopoly control of technology, as not only destined but, absolutely integral to the specie's evolution of our relationship to the intellectual product we all collectively create.
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Dear Junior Member Bobstad
Please scroll to the top of this page.
Click on the link called e-Books. You will find several lifetimes worth of quality reading there. No payment necessary.
If you click on link named Wiki a little bit higher on this page, find link
Free Ebooks. There are links to places where you can acquire tens of thousands of quality books. And not only authors that died long time ago. There is, for example, Baen Free Library and other places offering quite a few contemporary pieces.
If you are an opportunist, acquiring paper books in second-hand shops, libraries, sales, garage sales and borrowing from friends you have learned long time ago not to focus on finding books that are the newest fad.
If you decide to buy Kindle or Sony or other e-ink reader you will also find quite a few e-books that publishers offer for free to attract potential customers to their stores.
Once you purchase an e-reader you do not *have* to pay for your reading material EVER. If you insist on getting the newest books, you can buy an e-ink reader that will let you borrow the e-books from your library without leaving the house. You can get even newest Stieg Larson book if you are patient enough to wait in Library queue.
If you hang around Mobileread you often find an author offering his just finished book for free download for limited time.
If that is not enough and you insist on getting the newest fad recommended by Oprah, there is no help for you and you have to hunt for a paper book in a sale or pay whooping $9.99 for an e-book.
By the way, the TV in my house is almost 20 years old CRT. Still going strong. And none of my numerous computers I ever owned (with the exception of two e-ink e-book readers) was purchased new. Quite a few of my computers and computer parts have been salvaged from a heap of discarded hardware and repaired.