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What's the cheapest way to buy novels/plays?

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Re: What's the cheapest way to buy novels/plays?
« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2012, 11:21:26 pm »
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Off topic question.
Has anyone made the complete switch to ibooks? (or kindle etc).

These days, I only ever read free ebooks from sites like the one below:

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/authors.html

At the rate I am reading, it will take me 300 years before I am finished with that list :)
 

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Re: What's the cheapest way to buy novels/plays?
« Reply #16 on: December 10, 2012, 11:29:57 pm »
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Definitely Kindle I think.

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Re: What's the cheapest way to buy novels/plays?
« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2012, 11:35:19 pm »
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Definitely Kindle I think.


I can appreciate the Kindle > ibooks claim.
But more importantly, can a case be made for buying ANY book, when there is so much classic literature freely available and out of copyright on sites such as Uni. of Adelaide ebooks or Project Gutenberg ?

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Re: What's the cheapest way to buy novels/plays?
« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2012, 11:40:35 pm »
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But more importantly, can a case be made for buying ANY book, when there is so much classic literature freely available and out of copyright on sites such as Uni. of Adelaide ebooks or Project Gutenberg ?
A case could be made if you wanted to read more recent books.

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Re: What's the cheapest way to buy novels/plays?
« Reply #19 on: December 10, 2012, 11:43:22 pm »
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You can use ibooks to read epubs
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Re: What's the cheapest way to buy novels/plays?
« Reply #20 on: December 10, 2012, 11:50:06 pm »
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A case could be made if you wanted to read more recent books.


Very true.
But there is so much good stuff which is out of copyright AND free :)

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Re: What's the cheapest way to buy novels/plays?
« Reply #21 on: December 17, 2012, 01:56:08 pm »
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Gumtree and similar websites for second-hand books, the AN Buying and Selling board or your school's second-hand booksale.
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