[ed keeble]

just wallowing in the joy of J.A. Baker's the Peregrine on Kindle for under a £tenner: forcing myself to read it just a few pages at a time, so every word gets savoured this time around

which happy experience prompts a thought: anyone else spotted any bird books worth having at under a £tenner on Kindle?

any more £s than that and I would want a hard copy on a wooden shelf (it would seem weird to me to pay £30+ for an electronic Poyser for example and not even have the book)

but I suspect there are some nice bird-related bargains I haven't found yet

[TheThing]

I must admit, I'd be tempted to get it from the New and Used traders on Amazon. A new copy for £7.60 including p&p.

But I do love my Kindle, so would be pleased to see other results.

[Fozzybear]

I've seen that the New Naturalist books are somewhat cheaper on kindle (around £20 - similar to paperback prices) and some of the out of print volumes are available on it, which may be cheaper than finding second-hand hardback copies. Though I own a kindle (for free books and classics) I prefer to pay £30-35 for the hardbacks, they're lovely books and I just can't bring myself to pay for books on the kindle - it's ok for free books but I'd much rather put my money into physical books rather than pay for a licence to read it using a device. I like being able to download a sample onto the kindle to check out before I buy the paper version though. The paper versions 'can' be an investment too as they often go up in value after they go out of print, though that's not why I'm buying them.

Handy that the e-books are searchable and there's a built-in dictionary (could use that for the Dragonflies book I'm part-way through reading!) and a kindle is easier to lug about than some of the hardbacks I have but I'd have to be SERIOUSLY limited on storage space to consider buying ebooks over paper.

I have a copy of a book on London's Natural History published in 1945 that is still perfectly readable... given the way electronic formats come and go will kindle books still be readable in 10 years time, let alone 60? Not a problem for read-once fiction perhaps but that uncertainty along with the inability to re-sell, give to charity or loan to friends means I remain firmly unconvinced, and so the only e-book I've actually paid for is a copy of 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo', which was only 20p.