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Old 08-21-2010, 12:57 PM   #1
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Hi folks! I found this forum a couple of weeks ago (Google directed me to the fabulous post iPhone 101: iPhone+Stanza+Calibre (the almost perfect solution)), although I have been reading ebooks for over a decade now. I started back with my US Robotics PalmPilot when somebody on usenet mentioned that Fictionwise was giving away free short stories and Baen was giving away an entire book (!). I thought I would never actually read them -- how could a tiny screen possibly compare the the entire aesthetic experience of a book? (The texture of the paper! The scent of the binding!) But hey, free stuff, right? So I downloaded them and ignored them until the day I finished my paperback while sitting in my doctor's waiting room. By the time I finished reading that first short story, I had forgotten all that "tactile experience" nonsense. I could cart around a dozen books in something a lot smaller than a paperback!? WHOOOO yeah!

Flash forward to a couple of months ago, when my poor Palm TX was dying. I somehow seem to have bought around 1500 ebooks in the last 12 years (EEP!), so my major factor in choosing a PDA replacement was being able to migrate all my books. My thanks to this forum for helping make this a smooth and nearly painless upgrade. I look forward to being a member here.
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Old 08-21-2010, 01:02 PM   #2
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Old 08-21-2010, 02:17 PM   #3
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Old 08-21-2010, 03:25 PM   #4
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Old 08-22-2010, 03:20 AM   #5
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Good to have your company, Nomad. I think that, like most members here, more generally there is a growing realisation that a book is its content, not its presentation platform. The old-hat psychological argument for treebooks tends to be put forward by those who have never given ebooks a fair crack o' the whip. Best wishes. Neil
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