When Pippa DaCosta was growing up in rural Devon she was deprived of new reads until the ebook revolution opened up a world of diverse genres and experimental reading
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Readers love to read, and ebooks make it easier than ever before to get our grabby hands on new books, in most cases: instantly.
Long before I became an author, back in my early teens, I was (and still am) a voracious reader. I’d read anything, thrillers, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and they’d all be in paperback. But due to expenses and the necessity of actually leaving my tiny little Devon village to go get a book (which relied on my parents driving me somewhere), buying a book was something of an event, and I couldn’t get my hands on more then one book a month.
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