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Old 09-16-2009, 08:38 AM   #34
Juliette
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Location: Milan, Italy
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There's one huge physical reason before my choice of buying readers: my room is flooded (alongside a storage room in my grandparents' old house) by books, of the paper kind; and when I say flooded, it means shelves in the 3/4 of the walls of the room I sleep, write and so on into. My gran was right: there's a point where there are too many books.

Now, I need to buy books for my job, and they won't be available easily in electronic formats (although that might change...), but fiction, if I can help, is from now on going to be mostly bought/acquired as epubs, lits, ltrs, bbebs, pdfs, hell, txt and rtfs if I can help it. So: yes. Won't buy them.

I know it means that most of fiction in my language will be left behind, but since a lot of it was originally written in English or French or has been decently translated in one of those languages, and I have grown a terrible hate for the careless translators Italian publishers apparently handpick just like that, it won't be a terrible loss. Plenty of other fiction out there to read, anyway

(Plus, true, ebooks shops are a terrible tentation, but they're less tempting that shops that will take not just PP or a credit card and are located in most cities I visit... my luggage ends up far ligher!)
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