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QuantumIguana · 01-31-2012, 01:32 PM

Here's another advantage of e-books. The nearest bookstore to my hometown is 60 miles away. With e-books, books can be on my device in a minute. Where I live now, I can easily get to a bookstore, but when I was growing up, a trip to the bookstore was a treat. It was something we did when we went on shopping trips to the "Big City". (It was only about 45,000 people, but big is relative.)

I do like bookstores, and divide my books between paper books and e-books. For my science fiction books, I buy from my local science fiction bookstore. But there are a lot of people for whom bookstores are highly inconvenient.

01-31-2012, 01:32 PM	#62
QuantumIguana Philosopher Posts: 2,034 Karma: 18736532 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2 gen, Kindle Fire 1st Gen, Kindle Touch	Here's another advantage of e-books. The nearest bookstore to my hometown is 60 miles away. With e-books, books can be on my device in a minute. Where I live now, I can easily get to a bookstore, but when I was growing up, a trip to the bookstore was a treat. It was something we did when we went on shopping trips to the "Big City". (It was only about 45,000 people, but big is relative.) I do like bookstores, and divide my books between paper books and e-books. For my science fiction books, I buy from my local science fiction bookstore. But there are a lot of people for whom bookstores are highly inconvenient.