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Don't any of you use your 'Public Library' to take out books? Before e-books I used my home town (Rutherford, NJ) library weekly. When I moved to San Francisco I stopped reading almost completely, to much keeping me busy to sit and read. When I moved to Georgia I got more time but purchased all my books at Flea Markets and such. Around 10 years ago I started reading on my computers. I have CDs of all Public Domain books in different formats from Gut (txt), one that is in pdf and another in MOBI. I discovered Rocket Readers, Microsoft Reader and Adobe Readers. I have about 100 ebooks from Planet PDF and even more from Manybooks.com (also pdf). On my PC I had Mobibook reader and have not a few free books on there, about 300 DP SciFi/Fantasy/Gothic. I would buy ebooks from Fictionwise but no more than once a month. I would buy the rare p-book from Amazon which is where I first read about the Kindle. I had not thought of having a reader outside of my Macbook before that time. I waited for the Kindle to go down in price and got it this year at $300. Since then I get all of my purchased ebooks from Amazon. Wispernet is just so easy. I just found out about BAEN and BOB from you guys and have not used Fictionwise since Kindle. I just started looking at it again because I read on my iphone and transfered by bookshelf on to it.
This all boils down to I use Amazon for all my ebook purchases not because it is better but because its easy if you have a Kindle. I take out audio books from the library and plan to check out their ebook collection, soon. I just have so much backlog in my Kindle that I don't need to buy anything for a while. I only read about a book a week and have enough for the rest of the year.
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