I live in Pakistan, which is woefully underserved by the big ebook providers (no Amazon Kindle editions, no Google Play Books, and iBooks has mainly public dom

I live in Pakistan, which is woefully underserved by the big ebook providers (no Amazon Kindle editions, no Google Play Books, and iBooks has mainly public domain ebooks only). I tend to buy technical ebooks from O'Reilly and The Pragmatic Programmers, and such. (I do have another option for technical books -- the Asian editions. They're cheap, but the coverage is spotty: I bought the C Tiger book a couple of years ago, but all because I couldn't find the ML one.) There are no libraries I can visit in this city. There's a nice readers club in Karachi (sort of like Netflix for DVDs, except it's for books), but I don't live in Karachi. So, I hoard non-technical books. There are a few good bookstores where I live, and I tend to buy a lot faster than I read -- all because I'm afraid the next time I visit the store I won't find a copy of what I want. I've raided a lot of used bookstores, and bought books I'd never have imagined finding again, like the old CYOA series. Shipping from Amazon is expensive -- $6.99 per shipment + $6.99 per book. Amazon.co.uk is slightly cheaper for larger shipments: £5.49 per shipment + £2.99 per book. Amazon.in, right next door to me, doesn't ship internationally. Powell's is about the same as Amazon. I funded the Singularity & Co Kickstarter earlier this year, and that gives me access to a bunch of older stuff, as ebooks. I haven't ordered from baenebooks.com yet; their catalog doesn't have a lot of Tor books I want.