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View Poll Results: When was the last time you bought a pBook? | |||
I never bought a pBook | 1 | 1.19% | |
More than 2 years ago | 4 | 4.76% | |
More than 1 year ago | 10 | 11.90% | |
More than 6 months ago | 10 | 11.90% | |
More than 1 month ago | 11 | 13.10% | |
Less than 1 month ago | 34 | 40.48% | |
I buy pBooks as often as before I got an ereader | 16 | 19.05% | |
I buy more eBooks thans pBooks | 25 | 29.76% | |
I still buy more pBooks than eBooks | 10 | 11.90% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 84. You may not vote on this poll |
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04-05-2009, 12:50 PM | #1 |
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When was the last time you bought a pBook?
Since I bought my Cybook almost a year ago, I find myself reading a little bit more and in places I wouldn't usually read (not only because an ereader is more portable, but because it's more discreet).
I was about to order a few pBooks from Amazon UK when I just noticed that it would be the first time in almost a year! I wonder what's your case. The poll allows multiple choice (so that you may choose one of the last three options too). @HarryT: Could you fix that "thans" in the second last poll option please? Last edited by Over; 04-05-2009 at 12:56 PM. |
04-05-2009, 12:52 PM | #2 |
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This morning: one of the Agatha Christie books not currently available as an eBook ("Hickory Dickory Dock").
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04-05-2009, 12:55 PM | #3 |
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I bought Haruki Murakami's "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" on Saturday in Hardback, but I think that's going to be my very last purchase of a pbook. I gave away over half my collection this week to friends and charity shops, along with about 150 original DVD's. I aim to be Shelf-Free by the Summer
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04-05-2009, 01:02 PM | #4 |
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Many (most?) of the books I want to read are still not available to buy in digital form and so I expect to continue pbooks for quite some time.
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04-05-2009, 01:12 PM | #5 |
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I just got "Animal, Vegetable Miracle" to share with one of my housemates and my Landlord. I already have it on my Kindle, but as we know this is one of the disadvantages of ebooks. I've purchased quite a few books on Newfoundland dogs in pbook form that are not digital as well as a few women's history and religious history books.
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04-05-2009, 01:15 PM | #6 |
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I bought "Nation" by terry Pratchett and then promptly in e-book. I just like collecting Pratchett...
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04-05-2009, 01:21 PM | #7 |
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I buy pbooks secondhand all the time, as far as new from the store I bought a couple just before Christmas. Might have been the previous Christmas for the time before that.
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04-05-2009, 01:44 PM | #8 |
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I'm buying less pbooks than I used to, but as many books are still not available as ebooks I don't have much choice if I want to read them
Also, some of the pbooks I buy wouldn't be practical as ebooks anyway. |
04-05-2009, 01:44 PM | #9 |
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04-05-2009, 01:59 PM | #10 |
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'Passage to India' when it was the Book Club choice, because I didn't like the ebook version I bought from Fictionwise.
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04-05-2009, 02:36 PM | #11 |
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I went into the city yesterday and checked out 4 bookstores.
I didn't buy anything in Borders. At Dymocks I got Fantasy Cross Stitch 60 Spellbinding Designs. (I don't think embroidery books will be right for ereading in my lifetime.) At Abbeys I picked up Nick Hornby The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - The Diary of an Occasionally Exasperated But Ever Hopeful Reader. (I thought it would be interesting to see what an author reads.) At Galaxy I bought Jade Lee's Dragonborn, and Dragonbound and Magic Dirt the best of Sean Williams. I've already bought more than 25 ebooks this month. (Mainly Harlequins.) |
04-05-2009, 05:18 PM | #12 |
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I bought a pbook just today - a history book in Polish, as to my knowledge there are no commercial Polish ebooks in existence.
I still buy more pbooks than ebooks, because for a long time now I've been reading just the public domain mystery titles from Mobileread. I like mysteries published in 1900-1930 much more than the new ones. |
04-05-2009, 06:40 PM | #13 |
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I bought "The Lipstick Chronicles" at Dollar General a couple of weeks ago. It looked good, and it was a dollar.
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04-05-2009, 07:15 PM | #14 |
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Other than college/grad school textbooks, I have only bought the $.50 variety at the library. And I don't do that anymore.
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04-05-2009, 08:56 PM | #15 | |
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