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Originally Posted by boxcorner
I get the impression that for many people here, for the most part, books=fiction. Whereas, the vast majority of my p-books are non-fiction. If my books were mostly fiction, now that I have a reader, I would probably keep a few for nostalgia's sake and then give the rest away. However, I don't understand why some people bother storing large numbers of e-books on their readers. Is it to impress people who don't own a reader?  |
I buy most of my prose fiction electronically, and most of my non-fiction in paper. It's what works for me.
I've about 400 books on my 505, and a similar number on my phone - with about 80% overlap. I've bought hundreds of books over the years and I like to have them with me; and I certainly don't think it's too many.
The key for me, is that I don't consider the reader a replacement for a book. I consider it a bookshelf I can put in my pocket. So naturally I put any books I buy on there, whether I plan to read them immediately or not. Books belong on bookshelves, and my ebooks on my reader.