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Originally Posted by kennyc
Welcome to MR. Thanks for sharing your perspective. For me to it was the availability of classics that finally brought me in (after actually following/studying the technology for a decade).
Free Books:
Project Guttenberg
Google Books
Feedbooks
and of course here on MR.
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I could not agree more. I had the extreme good fortune to buy my Nook the week before B&N started giving away 12 classics a week with good introductions and footnotes. As such, I had more than 100 free books that I would have sought out on PG or FB anyway.
One of my formative childhood experiences was watching Star Trek with my dad. Campy as hell now, but it was the coolest thing going 20 years ago. But I recall being very jealous of the characters who could cary a whole library on a datapad. After years of having to have a separate bag for all the books I wanted to take with me on trips, nevermind how many books I had to haul around for my english major, e-readers were literally a childhood dream come true.
I came to e-reading through my palm pilot, and stuck with it until i took the actual e-reader plunge earlier this year. After having replaced almost my entire library, i've never looked back.