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Originally Posted by barryem
I sideload a lot of my books even though I buy most of them from Amazon. I always leave the setting on All Items so I never notice if a book is a doc or an ebook. I also keep it in list mode so covers are no issue.
I'm having a hard time understanding why people care about these things. I accept that you do and that's fine but I don't get it. The point of books is to read them. The point of Kindles is to read books. What else matters?
Barry
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This doesn't happen often enough that it's something I have to deal with very much. But I do care about the products I purchase. I want my e-book to look like a book. The visual side of me wants the cover included. It does not take away the point of the book, which is to read them, yes.
I suppose it's because imy introduction to e-books was via mass downloading of the public domain literature from places like Project Gutenberg and then I put them straightaway into calibre. And then oooooh the
features! I felt like a kid in a candy store. All my favorite literature I grew up with and I can put
any cover I want on it? I put a lot of pride and joy into it! It was FUN!
Downloaded a copy of Pride and Prejudice? Well, I'm gonna select the prettiest cover available and convert it right on in there! The fact that this feature is a part of a popular computer app (Calibre) goes to show that caring what the covers look like does matter to enough people that it is there for the using. I then get a satisfying feeling of "There, fixed it for you" after I've made the book look pretty on the "shelf".
Another part of it is a small part of me is rebellious in what percentage of ownership is actually mine. A part of e-books that I actually do
enjoy is the fiddling around with the cover, and "inside jacket", and tagging and such. I rather enjoy it, much like when my brothers and I were young, I quickly would take a cookie and lick it "there, has my germs on it! It's mine!".