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Originally Posted by ficbot
You'd get along great with my dad  I am trying to talk him into getting an ebook reader, and he was very nervous that he would buy, say, a Kindle, and then learn that the Sony store was the only place to buy the books he wanted. And what books did he want? Dickens. He is very interested in re-reading all of his beloved childhood Dickens favs. And possibly Buchan. I told him that if those are what he wants to read, he does not need any store... |
Exactly. Even though I'm a computer/software engineer and have followed the ebook development for the last couple of decades it wasn't until last year that I jumped in the deep end primarily due to the huge volume of classics available for free and in a standard format.