🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2018-07-02, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> writes:
>>On 1 Jul 2018 15:49:09 GMT
>>Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> I fear that isn't entirely true. We moved 51 boxes of SF books last
>>> time (in Feb 2016). I'm kinda conflicted about the time, effort and
>>> money involved in that, given I'm unlikely to read them again, they
>>> aren't worth anything significant and the next person to do anything
>>> with them is likely to be my executor.
>>
>>	I have a similar pile of books, this is the first place I haven't
>>erected shelving to hold them all and put them (back) into order - epubs
>>are so much handier, I just wish it was easier to buy new books in that
>>format. Nearly all of the old ones are freely downloadable, and I take the
>>view that if I bought a new copy once (true of pretty much my entire
>>collection) then I don't feel at all guilty about downloading an epub of it.
>
> Even the new ones show up on one or more of the 'alt' usenet groups, sometimes before
> they're officially released.

I have a few books on a shelf in fron of me here. There are other that
are `around' somehwere, but if I need them, it is easier to download them
electronically from Amazon, than to search. I think that is great.

There were obscure books that I  wanted to read a little of, but are of
such limited interest that they cost a lot of money.. People with an interest
are encoding such works into kindle format.

Some such works that I downloaded in the earlier days were crap, now they seem
to be doing it right.


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