Yes, you're right. If I want a particular book or author it is quite often the only option available... except downloading peer-to-peer shared ebooks that have the locks broken or have been scanned and OCR'ed from paper. I've done that as a stop-gap in the past, waiting till the publishing industry wakes up... unfortunately I sometimes think the whole financial system may have to go first, they're so feverishly locked into making it as difficult for their customers as possible.
I may yet buy another of his paper books. It won't help Carl as he sadly died about a decade ago, but it will help Ann (co-author and wife) and perhaps some of the causes he promoted: SETI, nuclear disarmament, peace, climate stabilisation, astronomy.
The problem with paper books is where to store them. I already have thousands of the damn things. Whenever I move house I spend days just packing books, and the hire truck is taken up with mostly books. I don't have enough shelves and am surrounded with literally tons of them. You can understand my reluctance to add to that. :)
I have about twice as many ebooks as I have paper books, and the ebooks all fit on a single thumb drive that I can carry in my pocket. They are automatically indexed and the computer can quickly search through millions of pages looking for a particular phrase.
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Date: 2008-10-09 09:21 pm (UTC)I may yet buy another of his paper books. It won't help Carl as he sadly died about a decade ago, but it will help Ann (co-author and wife) and perhaps some of the causes he promoted: SETI, nuclear disarmament, peace, climate stabilisation, astronomy.
The problem with paper books is where to store them. I already have thousands of the damn things. Whenever I move house I spend days just packing books, and the hire truck is taken up with mostly books. I don't have enough shelves and am surrounded with literally tons of them. You can understand my reluctance to add to that. :)
I have about twice as many ebooks as I have paper books, and the ebooks all fit on a single thumb drive that I can carry in my pocket. They are automatically indexed and the computer can quickly search through millions of pages looking for a particular phrase.