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Book or Kindle? I need a virtual intervention

As I said in my previous post, I was given both a Kobo and a Kindle for Christmas. And yet, I can't seem to break my addiction to print. I've been wrastling with the idea of getting a Kindle subscription to my local paper, the Ottawa Citizen but decided against it. I love my morning newspaper, love the smell of it, love the flyers, love the ads. And the pictures are not the same on a Kindle. Looks like the Ottawa Journal and it's been dead thirty years. Yesterday, in spite of having two e-readers, I bought two books by local folk: The Wealthy Barber II by David Chilton and The Looneyspoons Collection by the Podleski sisters. The first book was a late Christmas present, or early birthday gift, for my son Stef. The second, a cookbook, was for me. I love buying Canadian books because the printing is much better than those made by our American counterparts. No, that's not right. The binding is better. Our books reflect the Canadian constitution. They ...