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Originally Posted by issybird
I wasn't interested in buying ebooks until I bought my first eink device, but I'd been reading public domain ebooks for years before that.
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Me too.
Also I didn't buy an eink ereader to buy ebooks, but proof MSS from Word & LO Writer, via mobi, then azw3, then epub. Also of course to read the PD ebooks, which I still think is best reason to buy one.
Buying 40 reprint PD classics can cost twice the price of a 6″ reader and an 8″ Sage with 3rd party pen can be cheaper. Any keen reader of Hugh Walpole to Conan Doyle, of Romance, Detective, Adventure, SF, Fantasy, Children's classics Gothic or horror can easily find thousands of PD ebooks on Gutenberg in just one of those genres and "tidy" them, if desired, with Calibre. Mac, Windows or Linux and without a PC and Calibre the downloads are still possible, even on an Android phone with OTG adaptor, file manager and an ereader with USB Mass Storage and no WiFi.