I love the library, and I use it quite a bit, but like many people, I also like to buy and own books. I've bought many books over the years, lost many to a fire, misplaced others, failed to get them back after lending them to people, etc. And even the ones I still have are difficult for me to find when I get the urge. With a Kindle, though, I can have all my books in one place, with no risk of losing them to a fire, all of them accessible to me from just about anywhere. When I get on a train, I don't have to decide which two or three books to have with me in my bag, weighing 5 or 6 pounds, but I can have an eight ounce device with thousands of books, including a good number of books that were as free as the library because they are in the public domain. I can search the books by key word, as well, or by my own bookmarks and annotations. It's an entirely pleasant experience to read on a Kindle, in other words, and when they start formatting poetry correctly, it will be that much better. I am confident they will start doing so, since, as I remarked on the other thread, it is merely sloppiness and not technology that prevents them from doing so right now.
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