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#11
I've been reading electronic books for a long, long time. I remember starting Honore de Balzac's century of stories known as The Human Comedy on a Zoomer and I finished the last of them on my 770 a few years back.

It's about content and convenience.

I'm no ipod fan, but I've got an ipod and an itunes account because arguably it's the only legitimate game in town where I can buy an electronic version of an album.

I read copyright free texts on whatever handheld is convenient for me. Frankly I prefer TXT files. That way I get to choose the fonts, etc.

But copyrighted works? For now I'll be going to the bookstore (and have been) because I've yet to make the leap that $360 is more convenient than a book that never needs batteries, won't crash, is mine to do with as I please when I finish it.

That said, if Stanza were ported to the NIT, I'd probably get sucked in to Amazon's scheme for world domination.