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When I finally switched to ebooks it was primarily a future space-concern. Knowing that I just can't bring myself to sell or give away any of my books I could see a problem developing. Once I was sure that Australians had more ready access to ebooks from places like Amazon and the Kindle 3 introduced eReading at a much cheaper price I bought into it.
However, never in my wildest dreams did I imagine what I was opening myself up to.
Project Gutenberg and Smashwords made me understand that I was not just changing a format, I was entering a completely new world. I'm pretty tech/net savvy and I had never bothered finding this out before so I was in for a major shock.
In a few short months I've downloaded and catalogued over 150 books, many of them free and many from authors I'd never heard of before. I have my Calibre, I have my Kindle and I'm as happy as the proverbial pig.
Geographic restrictions ironically brought the first real limitation into my reading. I knew if I were particularly desperate for a book that I couldn't find in Australia, I could just find it overseas and have it shipped to me. With eReading I can't do that.
Luckily for most independent authors and certainly for public domain works, this is rarely a problem.
Regards
Caleb
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