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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't miss MMPBs one bit. I pulled one off the shelf the other day and couldn't believe how tiny the font sizes were, and how cramped the pages were. It was like there was more ink than whitespace on a page. There's no way could I read something like that these days. They may be more expensive, but I find trade paperbacks infinitely more readable. If not for ebooks, I'd be seeking out the trades whether mass-market paperbacks were still available or not.
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Interesting. For me, the trade paperbacks were always too big and floppy. If I have to read a big heavy book, I'll just go all out and read a hardcover.
Mass market paperbacks were my companions for years...they fit into my purse, they fit into my hand, they weren't so expensive that they felt like a big luxury.
Now, of course, my eyes are older, and my hands are older. If I were to read a mass market paperback today, I'd need my glasses, and my hands would start to ache pretty quickly, making me put it down. That's why ebooks are my companions now. I can make the font bigger so I don't
have to wear my glasses (although sometimes I still do). They are lighter (or just as light) as a paperback, and I don't have to do that awkward thing with my hands where I'm using my thumb and pinky to hold it open. (this is what made my hand hurt the most) Of course, there's also the added bonus that I don't need a flashlight anymore to read in bed.
If ebooks had been a thing when I was a child, I probably would have slept a lot less than I did.
Shari