woes of a poor book addict
I have anew obsession - collecting e books. I am a really poor student with no income and an addiction for reading, So what am I to do..Why get them for free online .Now i know that i should support my favorite authors by buying them but most of the titles aren't
available in book stores 'cause sadly there is a huge lack of booklovers.If I order them online - one, don't have a credit card and two, when you include shipment costs well they tend to exceed the cost of the books themselves.
I love Anne Rice's VC and Anita Blake vampire hunter and many others but I had to get the e books for VC-2,4 and Pandora and lets not even mention the various other novels by her.I have yet to see a single vampire hunter novel by Hamilton on bookshelves,I bought Shibumi by Trevanian second hand
but the Sanction novels I have yet to find in print.So what's a girl to do, well I get them online and then when ever i find a copy i could afford i buy them.
Can you believe that the Bourne novels are out of stock and you can't even find them secondhand . My cousin got to read them in his school library, me , I am still waiting. I am still looking for the last 2 of the Nicholas Linnear novels.You can't get the Silmilarion or the Dresden Files here.
The other thing is that while ebooks are well and good,holding a book in your hand is much more enjoyable.Sitting at my computer for hours on end puts a crick in my back .Getting a printout takes a lot of time since i tend to read fast(i finished the whole LotR trilogy in 42 hours including the six hr nap in between).
Now I am working on saving enough money to get either the sony reader or the irex Iliad.I like the iliad better but its too expensive,sony has a smaller screen and less on greyscale. But I'll
buy whichever i can get first.
available in book stores 'cause sadly there is a huge lack of booklovers.If I order them online - one, don't have a credit card and two, when you include shipment costs well they tend to exceed the cost of the books themselves.
I love Anne Rice's VC and Anita Blake vampire hunter and many others but I had to get the e books for VC-2,4 and Pandora and lets not even mention the various other novels by her.I have yet to see a single vampire hunter novel by Hamilton on bookshelves,I bought Shibumi by Trevanian second hand
but the Sanction novels I have yet to find in print.So what's a girl to do, well I get them online and then when ever i find a copy i could afford i buy them.
Can you believe that the Bourne novels are out of stock and you can't even find them secondhand . My cousin got to read them in his school library, me , I am still waiting. I am still looking for the last 2 of the Nicholas Linnear novels.You can't get the Silmilarion or the Dresden Files here.
The other thing is that while ebooks are well and good,holding a book in your hand is much more enjoyable.Sitting at my computer for hours on end puts a crick in my back .Getting a printout takes a lot of time since i tend to read fast(i finished the whole LotR trilogy in 42 hours including the six hr nap in between).
Now I am working on saving enough money to get either the sony reader or the irex Iliad.I like the iliad better but its too expensive,sony has a smaller screen and less on greyscale. But I'll
buy whichever i can get first.