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The colonial ebook bazaar

A ferry crossing on a quiet Goan river is the perfect time to contemplate the advantages and disadvantages of ebooks for an Indian reader. The advantages rest in my backpack, where the 20 or so books on the week’s reading list resided in my Kindle, part of a growing portable library. Unless I drop the Kindle into the Calvim river, I could theoretically spend the next three months in Goa and never needed to visit a bookshop. For readers like me, or for the average business traveller, the ability to carry around large libraries on a device the size of a small hardback is a significant advantage.

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