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Basically e-readers have saved my reading life.
Where I live physical (and e-books) are ridiculously expensive and priced as luxury consumer goods because of ancient principles of gate-keeping, guardianship, paternalism in the publishing and literary business.
Furthermore, what is on offer is mostly local authors in my native language and rarely the genres I like. I far prefer English/American authors and books.
Because of e-readers I have been able to find and download e-books from Gutenberg, Manybooks, Kobo and Amazon at a fraction of the cost and effort I would otherwise have had to employ.
Consequently, I read a lot more.
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