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Originally Posted by carandol
It's occurred to me that the high cost of ebook readers is partially offset in the UK by the high cost of books...
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Along almost the same lines, I bought Proust's six-volume "In Search of Lost Time" (Modern Library - thanks, Patricia!) for about AUS$32. If I bought them at Borders
each book would have cost about the same AUS$32. I'd add that up and tell you how much I saved, but it's 9.30pm and I'm sitting warm and stupid in a beery haze. Add the public domain "Classic" ebooks in that I've downloaded, versus their bought new price (frequently more than a "regular" paperback), and this Iliad's saving me a bomb.
Or, at least, that's what I'm telling myself...though I bought four "dead-tree" books on the weekend, because it's the first time in months that I've visited a real, city-store, bookshop - Borders - and, oh my, the
pleasure of book-browsing in a store bigger than my bedroom (unlike the bookstores in this neck of the woods). I was totally getting off on the smell of compressed cellulose.
Cheers,
Marc