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NinjaKlaus  ·  3564 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is everyone's opinion on ebooks? Do you prefer them to physical paper books?

Personally I always thought I liked physical books until I had nothing but a Kindle for a while, I had about 100 free books from the Kindle Free list and other sources, not pirated, and couldn't justify the extra expense to spend $12 - $13 on a new bestseller and back catalogs of old scifi and stuff aren't the greatest. So I stuck to my Kobo and later a Kindle Touch because it was cheaper that way. Occasionally I would read on my Touchpad (with Android) device too. Then last month I managed to remember I had a library card and I'm within a couple of miles of the place, I hopped on over and picked up a few books and got home and was sad because I couldn't enlarge the font on them. I still like to flip pages, but I really do like being able to increase the font size of ebooks. So, in all I would not say I like books better, but I do like their functionality. Now if only you owned your ebooks.

On another note I just wish there were alternatives to the big names like their are in Europe. In the US we have Kindle and Nook. Kobo is also there but there is no marketing in the US for them. Nook is on the way out it would appear based on news Samsung will make the next Nook Tablets, that leaves Amazon and Kindle to monopolize things. The smaller stores that sold ebooks have slowly started going out of business, the Sony eBook Store went out of business, it just seems if we could have real books that weren't rented and more options we'd be better off pricing wise and I could quit relying on the free Kindle section and find out what the hell Dallas and Peabody are up to these days, lol.