There are other stores too which I’ll check out when there are sales, such as Kobo and Google Play.
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I get notified by email when it’s available to borrow, at which point I go and download it, and add it to my Calibre library.Īmazon is my main source for buying books, especially when I don’t want to wait for a library copy, or if I want to show support for an author. Since there are limited copies of these ebooks (due to publisher restrictions), I don’t always find the book available to borrow right away, but I can place a hold on them. The selection is actually better than I thought it would be, and I regularly find several items from my ‘Want to Read’ list. Joining was easy - I only had to walk in with proof of address, I got a library card, and that was my login details for the online library. My library is part of the UK’s Libraries Consortium, and through Overdrive they provide ebooks to borrow, for free. I pay council tax, of which a portion goes towards my local council library. Libraries are great because you can borrow books for free, which sounds obvious but is quite easy to forget when you’re in any ecosystem. Here I’m writing up my ebook getting, surfacing, and reading setup, along with the reasoning behind each of the decisions I’ve made. I’m able to get books from the library, bundles, direct downloads, and I access them from my computer, phone as well as Kindle device. I’m now reading a lot more things, from a lot more sources, on a lot more devices and have had to break out of the Amazon bubble.īut I still wanted a relatively convenient setup for fetching and reading ebooks, and I’ve managed to achieve something that’s working well enough for me. But over the past few years, my reading habits changed drastically.
I used to have a simple life - I’d buy books off Amazon, and read them on a Kindle.
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