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From: Judy (no email)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2007 - 21:59:58 EDT
Almost all the cruisers we have met in the Caribbean are avid readers,
ourselves included. Personally, I have absolutely no desire for
electronic books because most of my reading is done in bed after my
husband is asleep (I am a night owl and he isn't), and I want a normal
old-fashioned printed book to hold in my hands. But I can see where
others might prefer the space saving feature of electronic books.
BTW, as everyone cruising is surely aware, there are free book
exchanges in almost every harbor where cruisers congregate. Take one,
leave one; or take 10 and leave none; nobody cares. Enables you to
constantly change your onboard library and not waste space on books
already read. I have picked up books at some of these places that I
would never have purchased in a book store, and thoroughly enjoyed
different reading material -- like a history book about Septimius Severus.
Cruising is more than just the sailboat and navigation.
Judy
S/V BeBe
Amel SM2 #387
--- In , <jeff at dot dot dot > wrote:
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> Rhetorical question: What does this have to do with world cruising??
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> Jeff
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> Jeffrey M. Stander
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 1:05 AM
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> Subject: [world-cruising] Re: lv-ab: new eBook model
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> Most e-Texts are out of copyright. Check out the Gutenberg Project.
Others
> can be purchased, however publishers seem to be resisting making texts
> available in electronic format.
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