I'm not. Every time I look I marvel at the huge prices being charged for

items with no cost of physical production and order printed books

instead.

--

Alan Bourke

alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

On Sun, 21 Dec 2014, at 05:54 AM, Malcolm Greene wrote:

>

> Wondering what the rest of you are using for ebook readers and where

> you're buying/renting your ebooks?

>

> I have a Kindle Paper White which is great for reading fiction but sucks

> for anything technical. I get my ebooks from Amazon and from open source

> vendors that publish books in a Kindle format. I've tried to read PDF's

> on a Kindle but the experience was not pleasant.

>

> I've read several free ebooks in an Apple iBook and PDF formats on my

> MacBook Pro and found my laptop's screen made the reading experience

> much nicer than my Kindle for books that benefited from the larger

> screen real estate. I'm considering an iPad as an alternative reader.

>

> Are any of you renting technical books from Safari or using Amazon's

> flat monthly rate rental program for a subset of their books? What about

> purchasing ebooks from other publishers like Manning?

>

> Malcolm

>

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