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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
I hear you. Do you have a public library that lends e-books? I've found I can borrow books for 1-3 weeks for free and that helps a lot. I borrowed a few books of Nora Roberts and that has helped.
Aside from the few books I bought when I bought my first e-reader, I don't buy many e-books because the cost is quite unreasonable for my budget for older books.
I am lucky that I happen to like a lot of the books that are for free (public domain plain vanilla books) and use calibre to create custom magazines for me to read, to help keep the overall cost of what I read way down.
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Thank you Spindlegirl! You bring up a great alternative I totally forgot about! I need to put my library card to use and start borrowing some of the new books in the series I have on my "to read" list since their ebook prices are just too prohibitive for me.
I guess I was so spoiled in that I always bought my pbooks because it was more convenient than putting up with the traffic to go to my local lending libray.
I too have literally hundred of PD ebooks that I read. I have re-read many of the classics and love some of the freebies by "new" authors at Smashwords.
But, I still have a weak spot
and need to keep up with Kathy Reichs, Nora Roberts and J.A. Jance Plus there are new releases that make the NY Times Best seller list that I want to read, but don't want spend $15.99 for the preferable ebook format.
I plan to also start going back tto my local used book store here where paperbacks are all half off the cover price. Guess pbooks will always be a part of my reading life after all even though I own a variety of ereaders.
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