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I think my Sony reader HAS widened my reading world! I live in a pretty small city and there's really only 2 small bookstores here. I haven't space for large collections of paper books, so I store ebooks on the computer and in my Sony's memory chip. I've always read a pretty wide variety of fiction and non-fiction books, but being able to get them online has widened the variety immensely. For example, I went through the entire Gutenberg catalogue and downloaded all the ones that looked interesting (haven't read them all yet, though!) and discovered a lot that were long out of print such as the Fu Manchu series and various French and Austrian detectives of the Sherlock Holmes type. I also discovered a lot of W.W. I spy stories (really interesting!) and many old cookbooks.
Since having the Sony reader, I've joined various forums like this one and through them have discovered several modern science-fiction writers whose work I really like. For example, "Blackout" and "All Clear" by Connie Willis (never heard of her before), which I just bought from Kobo.
And I'm thinking of trying out some French books, which I used to read in University but really haven't bothered with for many years. French books are impossible to find in this part of Canada, so getting them online is wonderful!
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