Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 11:00:24 CST 2012


Well said.

And another GREAT aspect of ebooks is their portability, especially
when travelling.  A very heavy and bulky pile of books fit into a very
light Kindle which (with the elastice strap on its leather cover) I
can hold in my left hand while I hold a drink in my right.

(_8(I)

Homer Simpson

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On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I have so many, many books and I know darned well they are worth zip on any market.  It will likely be a big bother to get rid of them even free.   The good ones are all marked up,  the junk is junk.   (TPR's books are among the very well-marked.)   It wouldn't bother me if my kids each took a couple books each to remind them of their dear old bookish mum,  but the thought of them having to get rid of thousands of books somewhere (the dump?) is hard - I don't care for the books so much as for what my kids do with their time.  They sure couldn't tote them 1000+ miles to where they live to put them in storage at some ungodly cost only to be dumped by the grandkids.
>
> I am so glad for ebooks and audio books.  No storage- no dumping - no clearing out.  I still buy all sorts of books - paperback, hard-cover, ebook, audio but I've grown rather fonder of the Kindle for several reasons (not least of which is the variable font size).
>
> Bekah



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