I really don't want to read in the bath on anything electronic
Ziplocs are the ultimate ebook reader accessory.
There are plenty of areas where ebook readers aren't as good as paper. They're *atrocious* for academic study, and lousy for anything image-heavy. What they're best at is casual leisure reading, and I suspect they'll start to erode the pop paperback market soon. But the schools and publisher that are getting starry-eyed at the concept of "every student with a Kindle..." um, not gonna work; the hardware has severe limits and the software development isn't pushing in the direction it'd need to go to make them academically useful for most students.
I do know that more libraries are starting to have ereaders to loan out, and I can hope that something near you will have some soon. Or that you find a friend or acquaintance that's upgraded their K1 to a K3 and doesn't mind loaning out their older one for a few days.
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Ziplocs are the ultimate ebook reader accessory.
There are plenty of areas where ebook readers aren't as good as paper. They're *atrocious* for academic study, and lousy for anything image-heavy. What they're best at is casual leisure reading, and I suspect they'll start to erode the pop paperback market soon. But the schools and publisher that are getting starry-eyed at the concept of "every student with a Kindle..." um, not gonna work; the hardware has severe limits and the software development isn't pushing in the direction it'd need to go to make them academically useful for most students.
I do know that more libraries are starting to have ereaders to loan out, and I can hope that something near you will have some soon. Or that you find a friend or acquaintance that's upgraded their K1 to a K3 and doesn't mind loaning out their older one for a few days.