Hello everyone.
My name is Alan and I am a raw beginner in the subject of ebooks. I like the feel of the MobileRead Forum and hope all you experts will make allowance for my state of ignorance
My motivation is that, having spent a full career in the fields of science and technology, I am trying to make up for lost time in reading the classic works of literature and philosophy. I also want to re-read some of the great books of our own time, books that I first read perhaps forty or fifty years ago.
Our house is already groaning under the load of books collected over the past several decades and neither my wife, Meg, nor I want to add to this load. A few hundred books in the space of a small paperback sounds like heaven!
The attraction of the physical artifact of a well produced printed book is something that I have always felt and always will. However, I have enough of these and there is certainly no need to look for this quality in books whose real attraction and value is in the thoughts or stories contained in them. Again a comfortable ebook will fill the bill nicely.
At the moment we have taken a first step by downloading Kindle for PC and experimenting with a few low cost or free books. This is a step up from downloading free text from Gutenberg, which can be exhausting to read.
In the next few weeks/months we will choose a Reader and get fully into the stream. At the moment we are just dipping a toe in the water!
Looking forward to meeting a few of you at the Forum.
Ciao,
A.