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HarryT · 12-28-2009, 11:37 AM

To be fair, there are currently 321,283 Kindle books available for buyers in the UK, so that's certainly not an insignificant number.

The Kindle will read any DRM-free Mobipocket book. My personal interest is primarily reading out of copyright classics, of which there are many thousands available completely free (see our "Book Uploads" forums here at MR). If you like SF or Fantasy, take a look at Baen - all their books are DRM-free.

The question I always ask is not "is a specific book available for my reader" - if it's not, I can always buy it in paper form - but rather "are there sufficient books available to keep me going" and the answer to that, for me personally, is that there are more than enough eBooks which interest me to last me several lifetimes.

12-28-2009, 11:37 AM	#28
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,557 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	To be fair, there are currently 321,283 Kindle books available for buyers in the UK, so that's certainly not an insignificant number. The Kindle will read any DRM-free Mobipocket book. My personal interest is primarily reading out of copyright classics, of which there are many thousands available completely free (see our "Book Uploads" forums here at MR). If you like SF or Fantasy, take a look at Baen - all their books are DRM-free. The question I always ask is not "is a specific book available for my reader" - if it's not, I can always buy it in paper form - but rather "are there sufficient books available to keep me going" and the answer to that, for me personally, is that there are more than enough eBooks which interest me to last me several lifetimes. Last edited by HarryT; 12-28-2009 at 11:41 AM. Reason: Typo.