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Old 12-02-2010, 01:12 PM   #26
Harmon
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Okay, let's think about this a minute. You own a Kindle. You want to read Pride & Prejudice. (Again.)

(1) You can go down The Gutenberg Way, by getting on your computer, searching out Project Gutenberg, locating the book, downloading the mobi file version (if there is one), and sideloading it to your Kindle (after running it through calibre if necessary to generate the mobi file.)

(2) You can connect to Amazon via your Kindle, search for P&P, buy it for a nominal price, say, One Thin Buck, and have it ready to read in about 60 seconds.

(3) Yeah, you could use the Kindle browser to download from Project G. But you know you won't.

What Amazon is selling you is NOT the book. It is the convenience. If the convenience is not worth a buck, go the sideload route.

(As it happens, P&P is free on Amazon. I searched around for a PD ebook, & wound up with Huckleberry Finn at 99 cents. 83% of viewing buyers bought that copy, while 4% bought an 89 cent copy. So most people think a click is not worth it to save a dime, I guess. What's odd is that another 4% bought .... Dracula. I do not want to know the mental associations someone makes to move from Huck to the Count...)

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