Ebook readers generally last long time, may be even a month or more on a single charge. Many ebooks are in the public domain and can be had free of cost from G

Ebook readers generally last long time, may be even a month or more on a single charge. Many ebooks are in the public domain and can be had free of cost from Gutenberg and other sources, which are free from any kind of lock-in or DRM. Especially for English, eReaders have opened up almost the entirety of the corpus of authors like Trollope, Scott, Thackeray, Meredith, Conrad, Henry James, George Eliot, Stevenson, Bennett, Galsworthy, Sinclair Lewis etc, many of which works are no longer easily obtained as physical copies.