When I was writing the other day about Bookshop.org’s new ebooks offering, I said ebooks aren’t really my thing and I vastly prefer reading real books.

While that is mostly true, I do tend to keep an ebook on my phone so that I have something to read if I find myself waiting somewhere. I have found it’s a good way to keep myself from the Endless Scroll.

Since I try to avoid—as much as is practical—buying anything from Amazon, I use Libby from the local library system. There are two problems with this strategy, though. The first is that the selection of titles is not great and wait times tend to be really long. The second is that most of the ebooks on Libby can only be checked out for two weeks and I am almost never able to finish any of these books before they are due back.

So I am excited to Bookshop as an option here.