@hollie Could not agree with you more! I actually love eBooks – as someone with a disability I find them much easier to read one-handed than paper books (where I get a fatigued hand holding them open), and I love that I can buy hundreds of them without having to find storage for all of them in our flat. The problem is and has always been capitalism pressuring companies to institute locked-down systems, DRM, planned obsolescence of reading devices, and so forth

@hollie jailbreaking kindles is awesome

@hollie Preach. I love a good paper book myself, but being snooty about format makes no sense.

I carried several hundred eBooks with me in my purse on the airplane. I can read in the bed at night without a big booklight shining in my partner's eyes. eReaders are fabulous.

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At one point, we had 5,000 paper books.

Now, well.... I cab still read print titles. Not print sizes so much.

I now have a 5,000 epub library.

I do miss some of the ones I had in paperback, and libraries simply don't have.

At least with an epub reader, I can make the font a readable size and type!

@hollie that’s why I shifted my kindle books over to an open platform

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I read in both formats too. DRM is why I convert my ebooks to epub after I buy them. I love hard copy books, but save space with e-books when I can.

@hollie I agree, I love having ebooks on my phone. Sometimes when I forget to bring a book to read when I will be sitting in a waiting room, I know I have something to read right there in the palm of my hand.

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