E-readers

[Mantra]

I agree. I don't know if the copyright still exists for Faulkner material. Absalom, Absalom! was written in 1936, I'm pretty sure that copyright has expired, so I don't know why you can't get it for free in PDF somewhere, totally legally. Or The Sound and the Fury. Oh, Wait. Just Google the name of the book you want + PDF, voila. Particularly if it's vintage. I have a ton of totally free stuff like that, even via AMAZON.

I guess the process of making it e-reader-ready costs time and money so that's a lot of why ready-made e-reader formats still cost what they do, even for dead authors.

Yeah, that's true. I wouldn't expect most e-books to be free. I know someone has to work in order to format it. But ten or twelve bucks still seems kinda high for some of these titles. I suspect the high price has more to do with the fact that they seem to have a captive audience and little competition.

Have you checked out, like, Halfprice Books?

Yeah, that's actually the used bookstore that I mentioned driving by every day in my earlier post, haha. I fucking love halfprice books.

But I don't have a lot of space. I just rent a room in a big house with roommates. I'm kinda maxed out on bookshelf space for the time being. I do keep a ton of my books over at my mom's house, much to her annoyance, and I'm over there several times a week these days. But still, it isn't the most convenient setup. I like the idea of transitioning over to e-books. I've been really enjoying the reading experience a lot. I just didn't expect the cost to be so much.

OH and be sure to check out Scribd. https://www.scribd.com


See this: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/amazon-k...subscriptions/

Ohhh, awesome! This looks really promising. I will have to check these out. Thanks!