October is School Library Month, and to celebrate and raise awareness MyVoucherCodes has asked me to write about my thoughts on eBooks.
I remember when people first started getting eReaders and eBooks became a big thing. Today, they're a pretty normal part of every day life for readers - whether you like them or not, it's not something that's uncommon any more. But when eReaders first became the new gadget to have, I was pretty appalled. Did we really need to have them? What was so wrong with physical books? Nothing! As far as I was concerned, to steal a line from J.K. Rowling's Umbridge, it was "progress for progress's sake", a way for all the big companies in publishing to make more money, rather than to fix something.
Now, I own a Kindle, and although I might not use it too often, and still much prefer physical books, I have come round to the idea of eBooks. I originally bought my Kindle because authors were having short stories published as eBooks only. I hate reading books on my computer, so if I wanted to read these stories, I had to get an eReader. And once I had one and discovered the use of NetGalley, it became much easier to access certain books for review, especially from a few American publishers, whose review copies I wouldn't have access to otherwise.
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I remember when people first started getting eReaders and eBooks became a big thing. Today, they're a pretty normal part of every day life for readers - whether you like them or not, it's not something that's uncommon any more. But when eReaders first became the new gadget to have, I was pretty appalled. Did we really need to have them? What was so wrong with physical books? Nothing! As far as I was concerned, to steal a line from J.K. Rowling's Umbridge, it was "progress for progress's sake", a way for all the big companies in publishing to make more money, rather than to fix something.
Now, I own a Kindle, and although I might not use it too often, and still much prefer physical books, I have come round to the idea of eBooks. I originally bought my Kindle because authors were having short stories published as eBooks only. I hate reading books on my computer, so if I wanted to read these stories, I had to get an eReader. And once I had one and discovered the use of NetGalley, it became much easier to access certain books for review, especially from a few American publishers, whose review copies I wouldn't have access to otherwise.
