Re: Why buy an Ebook?

--- In [email protected], Lee Passey <lee@...> wrote:
>
> bleepthisagain wrote:
> 
> > They aren't that much cheaper than paperbacks.  They aren't as 
easy too
> > read.  And, in the case of PDF format, they aren't reader 
friendly. 
> > Also it's hard to give them to a friend to read.
> 
> I buy e-books because:
> 
> 1. They /are/ cheaper than paperbacks -- at least, all the e-
books /I/ 
> buy are. If they're not, I don't buy them (let he with ears, hear).
> 
> 2. They are easier to read than paperbacks. I can increase the size 
of 
> the font to accommodate my aging eyes, I can adjust the brightness 
of 
> the screen, I can lay my PocketPC flat and not worry about it 
closing on 
> me, I can put it in a ziploc (tm) and read in the hot tub, and I 
can 
> read in bed in a darkened room. Of course, many of these things 
don't 
> apply to PDF files, but then PDF is a pre-print format, and not 
really 
> an e-book format so it doesn't really matter to me. If I get 
something 
> in PDF I really have to read, I print it -- that's what it was 
designed for.
> 
> 3. I can put dozens, if not hundreds, of e-books on my PDA and 
carry 
> then with me wherever I go. Next month I will be taking a two week 
> vacation, and I will have plenty to read the entire time, including 
up 
> to 24 hours on airplanes.
> 
> If you insist that e-books are PDF and must be read at a desktop 
> computer I think you will find that they are not as convenient as 
paper 
> books. If you can give up these two out-dated concepts I think you 
will 
> find that for most purposes they are at least as good, if not 
better 
> than, a paperback.
>
I live in a rural area.  So a big point in favor of ebooks is that I 
do not have to pay postage as I do for most paperbacks.  

I got an ebook reader from ebookwise.com and some software.  

Many of my ebooks come from the Gutenberg project.  The U of Penn's 
online books is also handy as is munseys.com.

Rick Brooks


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