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by Anonymous User on Tue Dec 02, 2003 at 11:19:24 AM PDT

I'm in the same boat. Thought the e-book was a great idea, but didn't like the reader. When I bought my Visor Edge and realized that I had all that space to play with (hey, 8 MB is still a chunk when you're dealing with text) I thought "wonder what reading a book will be like on this...". Bought a reader and started looking for books. Couldn't find much worth buying, so I turned to the wonderful Pirate world of Usenet and Project Gutenberg.

Usenet is iffy...it's either Science Fiction, bad scans of Harry Potter, or 85 volumes of military protocol. Gutenberg is great for classic lit, but that's it.

Do I feel I'm stealing other author's works? No. Why? Because the stuff I'm reading I either own already (Harry Potter and a lot of the sci fi) or would check out from the library. It's just way more convenient to whip out the Visor on the bus than lug around a hard back book.

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