I have some Kindle ebooks but only those which I could not get via Celia (Finnish state library for blind and visually impaired) as I'm no longer able to read paper books. I have never been comfortable with "owning" those ebooks and this annoucmenet by Microsoft certainly bolsters that feeling. However the "silver lining" in this is that this will slightly improve Amazon's and Google's position so they are (slightly) less likely to go out of ebook business.
I used to read a lot and bought quite some books myself. I also got many as gifts because my mother's family has long tradition of giving books as Christmas gifts. Oldest surviving book (AFAIK) in my mother's collection is from 1860s but most are from late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Most eye catching book has eagle and swastika in its cover along with title "Taisteluni" written by Adolf Hitler. Yes, that is a Finnish edition of "Mein Kampf". I have never read it so don't know how much it has been "edited" to make publishable in Finland (would be interesting to compare it to pre-war U.S. edition). My grandfather got that bestseller book as Christmas gift in 1942.
My own collection? Mostly scifi, some other novels and some history books. Oh and ofcourse a lot of Donald Duck cartoons (I'm Don Rosa fan). I have kept them in (propably pointless) hopes that someday I could read them again.
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