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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
Absolutely this. My first classics as a kid were "two for $1" MMPBs from Wal-Mart of all places. I read my first Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Jane Austens that way. I grew up an hour away from a decent library (my parochial school banned books like they were hard drugs), and i didn't see the inside of a bookstore until I was 17. But I had 200+ MMPBs by the time I left home for college.
Ebooks, even with the benefit of thousands of PD books, are just not as accessible in the same way. My parents would throw fifty cents at a book far faster than any tech (though cell phones didn't have color screens until I was in law school).
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I loved them and always had one stuck in a pocket. Anytime I had even one minute the book would come out. I did not matter where I was. If I had a chance to read, I did and still do. If I was close to finishing one I carried two.
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