Some of the great books out there aren’t on Kindle. I don’t say this as a dead-tree hipster or to be snooty (although tablets really do seem to have a negative effect on sleep quality) — just that if 100% of your reading is on Kindle, you’re missing out on some great books.
More generally, a surprisingly large percentage of the best books are out of print.
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That’s just laziness on the part of the publishers. They should re-release on digital formats
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It's not always clear who owns the copyright, and often very costly to conduct a diligent search, only for the owner (or a claimed owner) to pop up and try to sue you anyway.
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Some of those can be found on the torrent trackers or elsewhere, scanned by enthusiasts.
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And a surprisingly large percentage of them are at risk of disappearing. Let's take a page from the
@waybackmachine. Books disappear just as easily as webpages. It's up to us to work together and save our cultural heritage.https://blog.archive.org/2019/07/01/most-20th-century-books-unavailable-to-internet-users-we-can-fix-that/ … - End of conversation
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Atleast 100 such gems are shortlisted in my Amazon cart. Never printed after 2015 atleast.
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And perhaps some have been lost entirely.
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I can understand if the books are needed for research, but given it is literally impossible to read all books anyway, is the set of books available on kindle really worse than the set available in print as well?
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