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Originally Posted by HarryT
I read eBooks not to save money, but to save SPACE. I live in a small house, and don't have room for many paper books. I have something like 20,000 eBooks on a small external USB hard disk.
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Exactly my situation. And what makes it worse is I still have a couple thousand dead tree books that I'm weeding out. Why, you ask? Because the 'living space' I have is such that TWO of my four-foot by eight-foot bookshelves are stuffed to the gills -
outside in the friggin' garage!!!
That means they're soaking up massive temperature and humidity swings throughout the year. That's not
quite so bad on the hardcovers, but the conditions play hell on the mass-market paperbacks. So, the more I can switch over to electronic format, the more I can take off the shelves.
Ideally, I'd like to have just my technical trade paperback and my hardcovers on the shelves inside the house and replace each and every one of my MMPBs with ebook versions. It's taking time, but I hope to get an OpticBook scanner to speed the conversion process.
So yes, I'd much rather have ebooks than dead-tree at this time.
Derek