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Addicted to eBooks

Addicted to eBooks is owned and operated by New Yorks Times bestselling author Victorine Lieske, who started the website to help readers find low cost eBooks ($5.99 or less).

One of the features of the site that I haven’t seen elsewhere is that content is rated. For example, Not What She Seems by Victorine Lieske ratings:

Profanity:
No Profanity

Violence:
Mild Violence

Sex:
No Sex
Kissing




The Kult by Shaun Jeffrey:


Profanity:
Mild Profanity

Violence:
Heavy Violence

Sex:
No Sex

Books for your Kindle for US$5 or less

Looking for great reads at bargain prices? Check out DailyCheapReads.

With 750,000+ ebooks now available at Amazon to say readers are spoilt for choice would be an understatement. But with such a huge selection, where do you start? DailyCheapReads search the Kindle Store to find the bargains so Kindlers have more time to read. Each day, they list cheap reads, with a guarantee no book will ever be priced over US$5. And at least once a day, they post a SuperCheap (less than US$2) and/or Free read.

DailyCheapReads have three sites:

• DailyCheapReads.com for purchases from the US Kindle Store
• DailyCheapReads.com/junior for young readers – children, tweens and teens
• DailyCheapReads.co.uk for Kindlers in the United Kingdom (£6 or less)

Read an E-Book Week (6-12 March 2011)

For full details visit: Read an E-Book Week - E-Book and E-Reader Information

Forget Large Print Books

I received a lovely email from a Canadian reader yesterday. She mentioned it was her 93-year-old father who put her onto Kindle: “His eyesight has not allowed for much relaxing reading in the past few years and let's face it, it won't be improving at his age. He calls it the "Best thing to happen to him in years" and is once more an avid reader.”

A number of my readers (that I know of) have vision impairment or failing eyesight. Yet with all the debate over the pros and cons of ebooks, this is one aspect that is often overlooked. No longer do people with vision problems have to rely on a limited selection of large print books for their reading matter. Ebook technology means that the reader gets to control the font size (and depending on the reader, sometimes the font type). And it’s not like reading text on a computer screen.

Then there’s text-to-speech technology. Don’t want to or can’t read the text, no worries: the ereader will read the book out loud. Isn’t this something we should be shouting from the rooftops? Sharing with those whose love of reading has been hampered through no fault of their own that there is a solution?

I haven’t been able to wear reading glasses for the last few months. All I can say is thank goodness for ebooks.