Where do you get your books from?

[CBRetriever]

ALLEN wrote: "It's hard for me to handle Kindle for anything longer than novella length (say, 75 pp.). I also hate the technical bugs that still seem to plague such downloads -- cut-off page numbers, missing bac..."

I'm the opposite - I tend to forget how long books are and read longer and longer books on my Kindle.

On some books, it's a real pain that all of the back of the book material is included. I have a 4 books in one book version of the first 4 Game of Thrones books, and 4 times the end matter is a bit much. I can't think of any book I've purchased in Kindle version where the end matter is missing and it's especially nice if the index, footnotes, etc are hyperlinks so one can easily move backwards and forwards in the book

And as I just finished last week, packing all my paper books for moving to another state (I donated over 10 boxes of books), I'm only keeping the paper books that i haven't yet replaced with Kindle versions. When we moved to France, my husband convinced me to spend almost $400 USD on a Kindle 2 to save his back.

[Kateb]

I always said I would never have a kindle, loved my paper books. Then I retired and we started to travel, so instead of packing 10 or more books my children bought me a kindle with books already downloaded for me.

That was 10 years ago, I still have my paper collection and I add to it every now and then , particularly series that I follow. These I get from fishpond, or book depository

But the kindle stuff I get from Amazon. Occasionally bookbub has a good deal. My only hassle is Amazon offering the service of keeping my books that I have read in the cloud and I have to re download them if I want to read them again. We often travel to areas with no Wi fi and this is annoying.

But I love reading long books on my kindle, I love series. I am often amused when someone tells me they find the screen difficult and I show them how to make the font larger, they hadn't realised that they could do that

[CBRetriever]

Kateb wrote: "My only hassle is Amazon offering the service of keeping my books that I have read in the cloud and I have to re download them if I want to read them again. We often travel to areas with no Wi fi and this is annoying."

Only necessary when you have too many books to store on your Kindle/Fire. With the new 8GB Oasis even all my 1700 plus books would fit comfortably

ETA: I currently have about 400 unread books on my Voyage

[Kateb]

I have about 30 books on there, and I have a new up market kindle, it only happens to the books I have already read. I am a re reader so will sometimes go to books already read

[Karin]

ALLEN wrote: "It's hard for me to handle Kindle for anything longer than novella length (say, 75 pp.). I also hate the technical bugs that still seem to plague such downloads -- cut-off page numbers, missing bac..."

This is why I bought the old-school kindle with no light in it at all, which means you can't read it in the dark. While I hated the novels that had other people's highlights in them (what a horrible feature!!!), otherwise it worked well. The problem is that I get headaches from certain sound frequencies, including wifi, even though normal radio waves don't bother me--something about the frequency of sound of the wifi on the radio waves, I guess, so I had to quit using my kindle because they took out the ability to sideload due to illegal selling and giving away of ebooks by sideloading.

[CBRetriever]

huh? You can still sideload books to Kindles and Fires. Instructions are here:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...

I do it all the time.

[Sharon]

Almost all of my 'reading' books are on Kindle now. I ran out of shelf space (downsized the house when I retired) and was getting to the point where there simply was no place to put any more! I buy the ones I follow as they come out and keep those to re-read and pretty much all of my 'new to me' authors and books come from the free downloads. At this point my only hardback/ paperback book purchases are my art books unless I'm replacing an older favorite book that is falling apart.

[Gabi]

Okay … call me slow wit … I only just now realised that there is a kindle option for lending ebooks ( one per month). I never saw this before. Nice!

[Ine]

betterworldbooks and medimops are p much my exclusive book sources, used books are cheaper plus I like the little surprise of not really knowing what youll get (I have an ARC and an older book from the fifties that used to belong to an US marine, according to the stamp on the inside)

Semi-related: I never have a problem of my tbr stack growing too tall? I keep an amazon wishlist with all the books I want to read, when Im running low on books i open these used book sites and type in any of my saved titles and see whats in store and cheap, I order about 3-5 books. rinse and repeat

[ALLEN]

I use my Ammy wish list as kind of a holding list, too (hey, if people want to actually buy me presents from it that's fine, but it doesn't seem to happen to me as much as in the past.)

Other retail sites (like Walmart) often have a "Save for Later" function. My "strategem" with Thriftbooks is to invoke their Wish List, which is really more of a "hold 'til available list" but the point is, it's a cyber-list.

[Maggie]

Gabi wrote: "Okay … call me slow wit … I only just now realised that there is a kindle option for lending ebooks ( one per month). I never saw this before. Nice!"

Gabi - the Kindle lending ebook option (in the U.S.) is not as good as it sounds. I haven’t found wonderful books there available to lend and I have a huge library. You can’t lend just any title you’ve bought. However, I recall the family sharing option (everyone has to be on the same credit card) was better when I last looked at it.

[ALLEN]

Sure, but isn't that lucrative for the seller too?
Kind of like the "friends and family" plans that put the whole family on the same cell phone account?

[Kateb]

my sister and I bought kindles and registered them both to me. The amazon account is in my name but all books bought can go on both kindles. Since we read nearly the same stuff this has worked well so far

[Bobby]

Kateb wrote: "my sister and I bought kindles and registered them both to me. The amazon account is in my name but all books bought can go on both kindles. Since we read nearly the same stuff this has worked well..."

My parents and I did that for a while. We like similar books, but we all have some differences in taste, and there were lots of books that only 1 or 2 of us would have liked, so we ended up just going our own ways.

[Gabi]

There goes my hope to get some of the upcoming BRs via a gift card I got from my local bookshop :( . They need at least 4 weeks to get them, and since US books have no price maintenance they would be a lot more expensive than via amazon.

[Kirsten]

I either go for an interlibrary loan (though my library now charges $5 for those) or I check out betterworldbooks.com (they donate a book to a literacy program for every book you purchase).