Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Ebooks from Amazon

I have been using Amazon's ebooks since 2008.  To me, the large selection and the nearly 0 weight of ebooks makes them superior to paper pages.  I admit that webpages these days are chockful of distractions, interruptions, and irrelevancies.  But I can still get a book in electronic form in, say, two minutes.  I can learn of a book, read about it, buy it and be reading it in a total of five minutes, much faster than driving to the library and back.  Of course, if you are a dealer in precious old books, you may not want to deal in ebooks.  You can read an Amazon ebook that you have online at read.amazon.com.  On the main Amazon website, one of the dropdown menus under "Account and lists" has a choice of "Content Library' which lists the ebooks you have purchased access to.  The additional Kindle Unlimited deal allows many books to be "borrowed" for Unlimited Time and the deal includes many up-to-date magazine issues.


There are other ins and outs to ebooks that you can get to know as you use them.