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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Because it's the stories I read that hold all the nostalgic value/memories for me. I fell in love with stories and reading, not books.
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As long as the print is readable, formatting not distracting, and the pages don't fall out (though I have repaired glue bound and stitch bound books) I'm happy with the book if the content is what I want. My dad, OTOH, buys expensive editions of famous works. He's also into what Critics and Educators regard as Literature, so loses interest in some titles, hence I've at least 11 "Folio Society" editions, I doubt he read, of famous fantasy and myth & legend titles. My youngest son also likes fancy hardback editions, though he reads them eventually. I've passed on a few hardback "classics" to my youngest son, that probably came from my dad, where I have PD ebooks and paperbacks.
I like to have a paper edition and I'll buy it unless the ebook is a lot cheaper.
I like to have the paper and ebook. So I have two versions of Magician on paper and the later version as an ebook when it was on offer for £0.99.
I saw the very grey Sony when it was first in retail in Dublin. Wife saw it too. The only thing that put us off was the price. By the time I could afford eink the PW3 was just out. I bought it purely to read Gutenberg and discovered it would also save a fortune in ink (later toner) in drafts of my writing. So maybe 2 million words now typed and proofed on the Kindle & Kobo, annotations read back to Windows via Calibre to Word, then Writer. Later Kobo and then later still Linux.
Most of the ebooks I read are still from PD sources. I have bought ebooks too, from 4 sources. Wife has bought about x5 ebooks and all Amazon, but she too reads more from Gutenberg and other PD. She recently upgraded from a PW3 to a Kobo Libra and much prefers it. She never looks up stuff or annotates on it.
My dad (90) reads on a Kindle despite his love of the Folio Society. He actually uses the front light to read under the bed clothes! I think there are now 10 users of ereaders in the immediate family. One friend is still a convinced phone user for ebooks as he reads in spare moments when out. He found my PRS350 5
" ereader too wide for his pocket!