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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.
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Date: 2012-06-23 11:54 am (UTC)And I'm not surprised you didn't find that book. With ebooks right now you're finding mostly new releases and old out of print/copyright titles. I do get a lot of use out of my Kindle, because not only can I buy books and download the classics, I can also send articles from websites to it (like if I want to read something from sciam.com but it's too long for me to read on a backlit screen I can email it to my Kindle and read it there).
I don't know how BN works for this, but on Amazon if you see a book that's not on Kindle and you want it to be, there's a link you can click to request it. It guarantees nothing, but at least lets them know there's interest.
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Date: 2012-06-24 01:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-06-23 02:50 pm (UTC)If you like mysteries, the first books in Kerry Greenwood's series are 99 cents each at the moment. And Emma Jameson's Ice Blue was the first ebook original to make me wish it was in print so I could add it to the library collection. ( A paper version has come out; it is awaiting cataloging.)
And there is always Project Gutenberg and the Baen Free Library.
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Date: 2012-06-24 01:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-06-23 03:05 pm (UTC)I use my e-reader, if possible, for books I don't think we will be likely to want to re-read. It hasn't been perfect, but it has cut down on the amount of physical books coming in, which does make things easier
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