Happy chickens! Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yttocs Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty e Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy chickens! Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 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!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy chickens! Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 Instructions, CM - would those be the bits of paper my OH looks at after all else fails?!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
