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Originally Posted by leebase
My iphoneX is so much nicer than my old iPhone 3G that I first used to read ebooks. The Walmart Onn for $64 is a terrific and inexpensive tablet as are the Kindle Fires. My iPad Mini is my new favorite device. Such a nice size and weight for reading. Great for web surfing and participating on forums...typing this message on it right now.
Marvin finally got me to where I don’t miss Stanza. FBReader has the features I most demand and lets me sync between iOS and Android.
I have my many favorite authors who I pay retail for. And I'm buying complete box sets from new-to-me authors for $1.
It’s a great time for being an ebook reader
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I do agree with much of this. I started reading ebooks on a palm pilot, something that I doubt I would be able to read without reading glasses these days. The vast majority of the ebooks at that time was either PD books or scanned books downloaded from news groups (what some call pirated) since there were few ebook stores.
Now I can read quite well on my iPhone 8 plus but mostly read on either a big iPad Pro or iPad mini. If I'm going to be in sunlight or backpacking I use a Kobo eInk device and if I forget everything else, I have a Kindle sitting in my car. Talk about variety! There are few books that aren't available, most of those being somewhat obscure or orphaned books written 20+ years ago. Yea, it sure would be nice if every book ever written was available, just like they imagined back when the internet was starting to take off but that's life as they say.
Libraries now have ebooks and if subscriptions are your thing, then you can get massive amounts of books via various subscription services.
Are there potential problems? Sure. But life is awful sweet right now if you are really into reading ebooks.