Chicken bald back

[Happy chickens!]

Am considering getting an e-reader of some kind this Christmas, so have been following threads on this subject with interest.

 

Finding it hard to unravel buying the books themselves though! I can see that there are a lot of free books (great!) mostly those published some time ago, but newer books seem quite expensive. There are also a lot of very cheap ones for sale on e-bay, but some of my searches suggest that these are sold cheap to get you on mailing lists. I'm also not sure if they are even legal - surely you can't copy and sell books on?

 

Thanks for any advice!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I know nothing about them but there were a couple of threads about them recently ...

 

http://club.omlet.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=52161&hilit=+reader

 

http://club.omlet.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=54647&hilit=e+reader

[yttocs]

I got the wife one of these last year, its great she has filled it with loads of e books and is good for when traveling as its a space saver and to buy ebooks is a little cheaper than paper back books

[Chucky Mama]

I have yet to find cheap modern books but I love my ereader. I have all of the free classics on it but however sophisticated I pretend to be, I doubt I will read many of them. I think that the ebook will become cheaper over time.

[Aunty e]

Try diesel ebooks

 

http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/

 

Not all of them are available to UK customers, but they have lots of stuff, good bundles and let you pay by paypal.

[Happy chickens!]

Thanks for the link Aunty e; another friend has recommended this site too http://www.mobileread.com/.

 

I think Chucky Mama that I would be the same with the classics - pretty sure I've still got some unread Penguin ones from when they first brought out the 99p books Nice to be able to have them - you never know!

 

My main areas of confusion now really are how do you own your copy and how do you know you are buying a legal copy, eg a disc off ebay.

 

A lot of sites seem to have you open an account and you download your books from them, like i-tunes type, but seem to remember a problem with a similar tune based site that was closed and a lot of people lost the tunes they'd downloaded, even though they'd paid for them.

 

There are tons of cheap looking e-books on e-bay, but from what I've read they might not be legal copies and they are getting round rules banning downloads by selling you a disc.

 

Have now had a look at some e-book readers in stores and think I can happily read from them, so just need to decide which one to get - wondering about a bebook as that can store music too (one less device on holiday then!).

[Chucky Mama]

I am not sure about the legality of the whole thing. My understanding is that books can be released after a certain length of time and can be made available free. Some of the books that appear on ebay may be available free elsewhere so I would be tempted to have a look around before buying them. I did buy one and then found out it was available free somewhere else. You download them as a file onto your computer and them upload them onto your ebook. I found it a wee bit confusing to start with but that is probably because I don't 'do' instructions

[Happy chickens!]

Instructions, CM - would those be the bits of paper my OH looks at after all else fails?!!