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Old 10-21-2017, 10:48 AM   #114
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Originally Posted by Josieb1 View Post
I've been reading on ebooks for the last ten years, prior to that I was reading fan fiction on a pc screen. Discovering an ereader that would take word documents and turn them into books was a revelation and I've never looked back.
This was the same for me. First I ran out of room for all my books, then in the 90s the fonts became too small so I just started saving fan fics on my pc as Word docs since I could adjust the font. I read exclusively on my pc for at least 10 years, and forgot about buying books.

I got my first Sony reader in 2010, and haven't looked back myself either. Once I discovered Calibre, I converted my favorite fanfics to ebooks, and now have over 1500 store ebooks on my pc, phones and tablet.

If ereaders/ebooks hadn't been invented, I'd still be reading only fanfics on my pc.
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