Buying Electronic Books
Kindo: What’s that?
Nookie: It’s my new E-book reader. I’m just Downloading some new books onto it.
Kindo: I haven’t bought one yet. I’m Old school. I still prefer a Printed book.
Nookie: But if you haven’t tried it yet, how do you know you wouldn’t like it better? This e-book reader can Store over 10,000 Digital books and it’s easily Portable. Imagine trying to carry an entire library from place to place.
Kindo: I don’t usually read 10,000 books all at once and I hear that there are a lot of Incompatible formats out there. Each company is trying To edge out the others by establishing their format as the format. I think I’ll just wait until The dust settles.
Nookie: The different formats aren’t that big a deal. You can easily Convert a book in one format to another.
Kindo: I like the look of Text on a printed page.
Nookie: You mean that Faded text on that Yellowed page? On an e-book reader, you can adjust the Text size, Font, and even Line spacing.
Kindo: Can I get all of the Out-of-print books on my shelves in digital format?
Nookie: Well, I’m not sure.
Kindo: Until I can, I’ll stick to my Low-tech books.
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