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I've been reluctant to buy an e-reader because I wasn't sure how much use I would get out of it, and the technology kept improving. But when it came time to put four new tires on my car this spring, the final decision on which brand to buy might have been influenced by which brand was giving away a Nook as a rebate.
The Nook Simple Touch arrived yesterday. After charging it, and doing what every other user does, which is completely fail to read all 174 pages of the user agreement, I started thinking about which book to download first. And there I stalled. I have over 100 books in my to-be-read stack, including many 2012 releases. The books that I'm dying to read I already own in paper so it seems foolish to rebuy them electronically. At last, after much deliberation, I decided I would get Patricia McKillip's Riddle-Master of Hed series. I've been wanting to reread this for a while, and my original copies are fragile, while the omnibus reprint is awkward to hold. I log on the Nook website...
and discover that there's no e-version of the Riddle-Master books*. Welcome to 2012, I now feel fully indoctrinated into the e-reader user experience.
*To complete the e-reader experience, I should point out that there's no legal e-book version. Five seconds on Google will lead those less rigorously respectful of authors' rights to numerous pirate copies. Sigh.
The Nook Simple Touch arrived yesterday. After charging it, and doing what every other user does, which is completely fail to read all 174 pages of the user agreement, I started thinking about which book to download first. And there I stalled. I have over 100 books in my to-be-read stack, including many 2012 releases. The books that I'm dying to read I already own in paper so it seems foolish to rebuy them electronically. At last, after much deliberation, I decided I would get Patricia McKillip's Riddle-Master of Hed series. I've been wanting to reread this for a while, and my original copies are fragile, while the omnibus reprint is awkward to hold. I log on the Nook website...
and discover that there's no e-version of the Riddle-Master books*. Welcome to 2012, I now feel fully indoctrinated into the e-reader user experience.
*To complete the e-reader experience, I should point out that there's no legal e-book version. Five seconds on Google will lead those less rigorously respectful of authors' rights to numerous pirate copies. Sigh.