In my wanderings around the \u2019net, one thing has become perfectly clear to me: However harried and hassled, looked down upon, sneered at, spit toward, and generally disrespected as a valid art form, genre romance (just after science fiction and Cory Doctorow) seems to be at the leading edge of the ebook revolution.<\/p>\n
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I love ebooks. I love the simplicity. I love having a library in my hand. I love the instant gratification. I love that our romance-lovin’ cohorts in other countries don’t have the inconvenience and expense of importing physical books.<\/p>\n
I don’t care that I can’t donate them for my tax write-off, that I can’t take them to a used book store, share them with my friends.<\/p>\n
The only thing that concerns me at the moment is that my<\/strong><\/em> ebook reading device (the eBookwise-1150<\/a>) will go the way of the do-do bird once a standard is adopted and devices are built that can take all formats. On the other hand, it’s a small price to pay in the event that the universal format, .epub (.oeb for now)<\/a> is adopted (a la mp3) and manufacturers build devices that can read .epub\/.oeb formats (although my eBookWise does read that natively).<\/p>\n Don’t get me wrong; I love books. I love paper. I love the pretty covers. I love the smell of books new and old (even the ones that smell like tobacco smoke because you know someone enjoyed that book before you). I love everything about paper books. But as a late-adopter of every other gadget out there, I find ebooks to be fast, convenient and, uhm \u2026 (publishers, take note)<\/p>\n I impulse buy a lot more now that I have an ebook reader. I’m spending three, four times the money I spent on books before I got my reader. Want my cash? Give me ebooks.<\/p>\n Food for thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my wanderings around the \u2019net, one thing has become perfectly clear to me: However harried and hassled, looked down upon, sneered at, spit toward, and generally disrespected as a valid art form, genre romance (just after science fiction and Cory Doctorow) seems to be at the leading edge of the ebook revolution. <donning pimp […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebooks","category-reading-devices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17078,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/17078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}