Stopped in the Middle

I had to stop "Feed" and "Time Traveler's Wife" in the middle so I could return them to the library where other folks are waiting for them.  Kind of frustrating, but not entirely unexpected.  I stopped reading "Time Traveler's Wife" because I could tell I was getting to a possibly sad part and, as I was only about a hundred pages from the end, would prefer to sit down and read it all the way through instead of in smaller chunks of sadness. I waited too long.  I own a copy already, and so am waiting for another to become available at the library.  (Do I have any idea where my copy is?  No.  This is a common theme in my life, and I generally take the path of least resistance and just get it out of the library. Someday I'll have a real home library, etc, etc, etc.)

Anyway, "Feed" had 5 holds and there was no way I was going to finish it, so I returned it and am now trying to talk myself into buying a digital copy for my G Tablet through Amazon or B&N.  $7.99.  That seems a lot for a bunch of pixels (I know, I know, I'm paying the author, and the editor, etc, which I totally believe in, but I still wonder where all that money is going). However, I am something of an advocate for ebooks (I've owned an ereader since 1999), and I need to learn to suck it up and pay for the books. (Any books I've paid for in the past that I haven't produced myself from online text I've bought at Baen http://www.baen.com/, which sells SF/F at incredible prices.) The paper "Feed" is one of the large mass markets and costs $9.99 anyway, so the ebook is $2.00 less than the cheapest paper copy, and I really don't want to bring much more paper into my house.  Tonight I will buy the e and I'll enjoy it, damnit!