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I know some people are still resistant to the whole idea of e-books, but consider this. I had a £5.00 Amazon gift certificate and in the past few days I’ve bought:

The Pure Gold Baby, Margaret Drabble
Dear Lupin, Charles Mortimer, Roger Mortimer
Love, Nina, Nina Stibbe
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

and I still have another £1.04 to spend. How else could I get these recently published books so cheaply? Unread books on the Kindle will be rivalling my TBR pile soon, but they take up no house room.

goldfinch

Date: 2014-01-08 06:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] land-girl.livejournal.com
Tell me what you think of Dear Lupin! I loved it. Mortimer Senior sounds so much like my dad in his letters.

Date: 2014-01-08 07:08 pm (UTC)

E-Books

Date: 2014-01-08 07:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] joan kyler (from livejournal.com)
I agree with you completely about e-books. I don't feel at all guilty of my electronic TBR stack - which keeps growing.

Also, when I'm having trouble with the arthritis in my thumbs / hands, reading on my Kindle is less painful than holding open a paper book.

I'll always love my old 'real' books, but my new ones will mostly be e-books.

Re: E-Books

Date: 2014-01-08 07:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] callmemadam.livejournal.com
Adjusting the font size is a big plus, too.

Date: 2014-01-08 07:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] gwendraith.livejournal.com
My electronic book pile is huge and my bijou flat would be piled floor to ceiling with books, if I could afford the paper versions. It's one of the best presents I've ever had (from Rob and Daniel one year).

Date: 2014-01-09 07:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] callmemadam.livejournal.com
Yay for the Kindle. But what did I do when I was out yesterday? Bought books!

Date: 2014-01-09 08:33 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] gwendraith.livejournal.com
I still buy books as well. I like AA and Readers Digest books and bought one about Britain's national parks and one about the coast recently and they just aren't as good on a Kindle. Novels are better on it.

Kindle

Date: 2014-01-10 01:12 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I love my Kindle... And we obviously have similar taste, because I bought The Goldfinch as well... And I'm still buying books.

Re: Kindle

Date: 2014-01-10 02:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] callmemadam.livejournal.com
Like minds. Book buying is definitely an addiction.

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