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Originally Posted by Azimuthal
So if you're reading this, and you haven't bought one yet. research what you're buying, take a look at sony's connect site and ask to use one in store. if you plan to read a lot of gutenberg stuff i suppose this *might* be worth the price, but otherwise...
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... but otherwise, there are many other sources of books apart from the "Connect" store and PG. It is, for example, trivial to convert any "LIT" file for use on the Reader, and there are a number of on-line bookstores which sell books in Microsoft Reader format.
If you're into SF and Fantasy, there's Baen, who publish stuff in open formats. (I'm a big fan of Baen, but since the death of Jim Baen they seem to have descended somewhat into publishing ultra-right-wing militaristic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, sado-masochistic, pornographic books such as "Ghost" which I find very unpleasant, but that's just a personal view).
Then there's the Usenet newsgroups. I'm not condoning piracy, but personally I feel no ethical qualms about reading a scanned version of a book I own as a paper book if it can't be legitimately bought as an e-book.
There are lots of sources of material to read. You just have to look around for it.