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Originally Posted by meeera
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Thanks for that - I read The Age every day, I wonder how I missed it...
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Use an American address (hotel, for example), for Amazon and Kobo to buy in the US or UK.
The Kobo 50% coupon (Sept50) works in the US. While you're at it, get Musashi by Yoshikawa too. I got that yesterday (and Taiko too), pushing them forward on my to reread list because of the size of the hardcovers.
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Thanks for the recommendation! If it's encouraged by the government here, I may well look into circumventing geo-restrictions.
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Originally Posted by Anabana
To give an answer to the original question; I've sent a number of my old books (mostly pb's) to Book Scan US (haven't tried 1DollarScan but the price is basically the same). The pdf's are the same quality as the original books - in a few cases of old, slightly faded print, the pdf is better.
They read easily on my tablet. As I have ABBYY Fine Reader software, I didn't bother to pay extra for OCR, but haven't needed to use it for any of them. YMMV.
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Hmm - so as long as I buy a well-printed book, the PDF will be presentable. Thanks! Of course, at this stage, I may just look into creating a US account on a website or two.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
But if it's a PDF created from images, your books are huge, and not searchable. Both are a big fat disadvantage for an e-reader.
And if you're going to read Shogun on a 10 inch tablet, you could just as well read the hardcover, at least in my opinion.
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You make a good point about a 1,000-page PDF being enormous. I didn't think of that. However, my tablet is only 7 inches. I love reading on it.