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Tarana · 08-28-2015, 11:35 AM

I try to do that as well, but alas, many of my authors are not in the e-collection at my library. I don't ever read general fiction.

So sorry about your injury! I have also found that after having anesthesia, I have concentration problems for up to a month later despite the fact that I'm off the pain pills within a few days of exiting the hospital.

I'm spending money converting some books so that I can read them, so while I've been good about not buying new books (even cheap ones), I'm still spending money on books. However, my concern is that someone somewhere will shut the scanning services down (1dollarscan.com), so I'm getting the few series done that I REALLY want. They are mostly by dead authors whose copyrights appear to be orphaned. I've scanned and converted most of the Clare Darcy. The Australians ( William Stuart Long- Vivian Stuart) 12 book series is completely scanned and I've converted (and read) the first 2 books. I can see why this series was popular. Stuart was very meticulous in her Australian history.

I've only scanned one of the science fiction. I want to read it before I decide whether to scan the rest. It's like seeing a series on sale for 99c and you know it's popular, you should buy them all,but what if you don't even like the first book? Another author said that this one series would not be converted to ebook, yet the latest issues from the series are in ebook. Do I wait? Do I scan? I decided to just do the first one (one of my brother's favorite series). He can no read novels, but can listen to them with the voice-to-text programs, so we are eliminating his paper books and replacing with ebooks. Converting books can be an addiction as well, so I had to draw a line somewhere, so only selected series *I* wanted to read.

08-28-2015, 11:35 AM	#3573
Tarana Wizard Posts: 4,030 Karma: 38840460 Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Minneapolis Device: PWSE, Voyage, K3, HDX, KBasic 7 & 8, Nook Glo3, Echos, Nanos	I try to do that as well, but alas, many of my authors are not in the e-collection at my library. I don't ever read general fiction. So sorry about your injury! I have also found that after having anesthesia, I have concentration problems for up to a month later despite the fact that I'm off the pain pills within a few days of exiting the hospital. I'm spending money converting some books so that I can read them, so while I've been good about not buying new books (even cheap ones), I'm still spending money on books. However, my concern is that someone somewhere will shut the scanning services down (1dollarscan.com), so I'm getting the few series done that I REALLY want. They are mostly by dead authors whose copyrights appear to be orphaned. I've scanned and converted most of the Clare Darcy. The Australians ( William Stuart Long- Vivian Stuart) 12 book series is completely scanned and I've converted (and read) the first 2 books. I can see why this series was popular. Stuart was very meticulous in her Australian history. I've only scanned one of the science fiction. I want to read it before I decide whether to scan the rest. It's like seeing a series on sale for 99c and you know it's popular, you should buy them all,but what if you don't even like the first book? Another author said that this one series would not be converted to ebook, yet the latest issues from the series are in ebook. Do I wait? Do I scan? I decided to just do the first one (one of my brother's favorite series). He can no read novels, but can listen to them with the voice-to-text programs, so we are eliminating his paper books and replacing with ebooks. Converting books can be an addiction as well, so I had to draw a line somewhere, so only selected series I wanted to read. Last edited by Tarana; 08-28-2015 at 11:45 AM.