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Originally Posted by AprilHare
Being very pleased with my liseuse, I am thinking of helping to liseuseify my fellow man - after all, everyone should have access to good e-books!
Can anyone recommend a good way to promote and otherwise achieve near-complete liseuseification by, say, 2020?  |
It's an admirable aspiration and I wish you well but here's a bit of a problem. I'm about to move house and over the years I have reduced my paper books down to about 500. I consider myself pretty much liseusified - I use my liseuse every day and rarely resort to paper books - and I was thinking maybe now is the time to just get rid of the this rump of dead trees. Trouble is, I don't think I can do it. This is only partly rational - some of the 500 paper books are reference and academic books that I might use at some point - but most are novels. For example I have the last 8 novels of Iris Murdoch in hardback, they take up an inordinate amount of space, I shall likely never read them again, (apart from The Sea, The Sea), I could get them as ebooks. Why don't I get rid of them - being hardback I could probably get as much for them at the English Bookshop where I live in Denmark. as the ebooks would cost. I don't know why I won't get rid of them but I won't.
Maybe liseusification can happen alongside the continued existence of paper books - I hope so. Maybe paper books will become a bit like vintage cars - nobody would buy a vintage car simply as a means of transport, but there are people who see something of value in just having and maintaining vintage cars.