No space in the bookcase or suitcase? Or are the letters of books increasingly difficult to read? Buy, borrow or download an e-book.
E-books
If you have filled your bookcase (a little too well) or don’t feel like carrying a lot with you on holiday, you can switch from the paper book to the digital version. In other words: the e-book (also known under the English name e-book). This is a digital file containing the entire contents of the book. So you don’t read it on paper, but on the e-reader or tablet. It is useful here that you can make the book yourself more readable, even if it is dark at night, for example.
Borrow e-book
Just like for regular books, you can go to the library for an e-book. Borrow some of the 20,000 e-books from the library and put them on the e-reader. You must of course be a member of the (digital) library. Borrowed e-books disappear from the digital bookshelf after three weeks.
Buy e-book
E-books are available at many online stores. Think of bol.com, Bruna, AKO, books.nl, bookworld.com, Bookspot.nl, Kobo.com and Amazon.nl. All those different points together offer millions of ebooks.
Please note: the e-books of some points of sale are linked to a specific e-reader. For example, Bol.com sells ebooks for a Kobo e-reader (or the free reading app that Bol offers). The webshop also has a special subscription: Kobo Plus. And if you buy an ebook from Amazon, you need a Kindle e-reader. But there are also outlets that sell ebooks for all epub e-readers. Always check the specifications to see if the book is suitable for your device.
Free ebooks
Some sites allow you to download ebooks for free. These are often English-language books. Prefer to read in Dutch? Then search manybooks.net and Gutenberg.org to free Dutch e-books. Or take a look at the free e-books at Kobo.com. Search for a book from the menu bar and download it.