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Originally Posted by darryl
PS2: Clarification. The questions relate to new books, since used print books are often available at a nominal price. By all means indicate in the comments that you prefer these used print books.
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Unless the print book is in terrible condition (missing pages, or lots of underlining), I have no preference for used vs. new print books. What difference does it make?
I do have a preference for the eBook due to font, weight, and convenience of having the book I'm reading, and the newspaper, on the same gadget.
My real preference is free from the library, or even not quite free from the library (Brooklyn $50/year). But I will, when I buy, pay a little more for the eBook. I'd also pay a bit more for the eBook newspaper over print, but don't let newspaper publishers know this
When I'm done reading, I delete the eBook or trash the paper book, just as with a newspaper. So ownership doesn't have much of an attraction to me.
Unlike (I think) everyone else here, Mobile Reading has always, going back to the Palm/AvantGo era, been as much, for me, about the
New York Times and
Washington Post as books.