From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-27 03:47, rbowman wrote:   
      
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   > Now it's difficult to avoid. While I would prefer to support local   
   > businesses for many things like the electronics I play with there are no   
   > local businesses. This is too small a market and never developed something   
   > like Fry's. If you were lucky Radio Shack might have something but they're   
   > gone. Of course Fry's is gone now, perhaps killed by Amazon. Even more   
   > mundane during covid there was almost no cat food on the shelves locally,   
   > but I could get a case of Purina from Amazon. I still get a case every   
   > month. I think the cats recognize the Amazon logo on the box but haven't   
   > figured out how to help themselves. Kindle? I've got several and rarely   
   > buy hardcopy books. Even a lot of the titles in the library's digital   
   > collection are routed to the Kindle via Amazon. There are local bookstores   
   > and even a B&N but finding what I want is difficult B&N has shrunk their   
   > tech books down to one shelf.   
      
   I don't buy ebooks from Amazon. AFAIK, they do not produce .epub format,   
   but their own. I believe you can convert them if they don't have DRM   
   using Calibre.   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
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