Thread: Have Ereaders Affected Your Book Collection?
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Old 01-23-2014, 06:00 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by Tarana View Post
As everybody can see, over 75% of poll respondees have reduced their physical books since getting their ereaders. I would still continue to get paperbacks at garage sales for my Mom (hey, 25c-50c is still cheaper than an ebook and her vision is fine), but she is enjoying the additional space she garnered by getting rid of lots of paperbacks that she did not want to reread. The Senior center is happy to take whatever we don't want.

Crowl - I understand that you do not want to just throw out books. Can I suggest that you look for a hostel or other place that is frequented by American tourists? Perhaps there is a used bookstore in the area that would be happy to have english books? Perhaps even contact your library and find out if they would like to offer them for free to patrons - I have no doubt there are more english speakers in your area, just like there are german speakers in my area.
Everybody can't see...
Number of books decreased some (0-25%) 24 17.27%
Number of books decreased a lot (25-75%) 22 15.83%
Number of books almost gone (over 75-99%) 30 21.58%
All books gone 4 2.88%

Total looks more like 57.56% as none of the others record a decrease so hardly over 75%... I find the fact that around 40% of respondents have seriously reduced their pbooks to be more interesting on a site heavily prejudiced in favour of ebooks by its very nature although it is still a very limited (139 at time of post - 23:04 on 23rd Jan 2014) sample considering the number of forum members...
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