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Nabeel · 09-09-2014, 11:36 AM

A really interesting post. I suppose I'm still quite conservative: I initially got interested in e-books after the experience of moving house (and a few thousand paper books) twice in two years. After that, the case for the ebook seemed unanswerable.

I tend to use ebooks as a way to supplement or replace my old paper library.

My research has led me to buy four Amazon/Kindle publications. I don't have a Kindle, so I read these on my PC. Each of these was autobiographical in nature, and in each case the author had been rejected by mainstream publications. I've also had a couple of personal contacts which have pushed me to buy three publications from Smashwords: each of them as good as any paper publication.

So far, the big advantage for me has been the astonishingly cheap collected editions of classic writers. But here you have to be careful: the 99p 'Collected Dostoyevsky' contained so many awful scanning mistakes that I went wild and spent a whole £5 on a Collected Dostoyevsky, which seems mistake-free.

09-09-2014, 11:36 AM	#10
Nabeel Zealot Posts: 147 Karma: 2747136 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Britain Device: Kobo Aura One	A really interesting post. I suppose I'm still quite conservative: I initially got interested in e-books after the experience of moving house (and a few thousand paper books) twice in two years. After that, the case for the ebook seemed unanswerable. I tend to use ebooks as a way to supplement or replace my old paper library. My research has led me to buy four Amazon/Kindle publications. I don't have a Kindle, so I read these on my PC. Each of these was autobiographical in nature, and in each case the author had been rejected by mainstream publications. I've also had a couple of personal contacts which have pushed me to buy three publications from Smashwords: each of them as good as any paper publication. So far, the big advantage for me has been the astonishingly cheap collected editions of classic writers. But here you have to be careful: the 99p 'Collected Dostoyevsky' contained so many awful scanning mistakes that I went wild and spent a whole £5 on a Collected Dostoyevsky, which seems mistake-free.