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[some_stars]

I have a Kindle! My dad just bought one of the new ones, and gave me his old keyboard model. I've cleared it of all his books about how liberals are destroying the world and now it's ready for some fanfic. Are the real books in the Kindle store still full of typos and completely unedited? Because that's the number one reason I haven't bought myself an e-reader yet; official ebooks have always been such shit and so expensive, and even the free public domain ones are never edited. Has this changed?

Next task: read the manual and figure out how to actually use it, then go to Project Gutenberg (which has much higher editing standards than the Kindle store) and download everything. Then AO3 and repeat.

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[thingswithwings]

I've cleared it of all his books about how liberals are destroying the world and now it's ready for some fanfic.

A change for great justice!

[some_stars]

It did seem rather fitting :D

[nostalgia]

Yeah, Gutenberg ones are in any way edited well.

[vass]

Keep backups. Amazon can and will repossess your books with no warning or recourse. D:

That said, yay for ereaders! And yay for replacing your father's books with something more socially useful, like porn!

Do you know about the Baen free library? Lots of free, legal fantasy and science fiction there. And more here. I am very sorry to note that they've had to take the Lois McMaster Bujold books down.