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Originally Posted by Atomix
Damn dude, how much do you earn monthly if you can afford just to buy nearly all e-readers out there? Ipad and DX costs pretty much
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We've had an intense and interesting discussion about that in this very same thread maybe 6 months ago.
I'm into gadgets, others are into cars, vacations, expensive dinners, ....
In comparison, my hobby is relatively cheap.
Let's say, I buy a new reader every 4 to 6 weeks on average. And maybe 250 eBooks for every mainstream eBook format available on those readers. That's maybe $ 250 per month for hardware and maybe $ 400 per month for eBooks.
That's a lot, if it would be 1 of 25 hobbies. But for my main hobby, I guess it's acceptable.....
If you lease an expensive car, it's certainly more per month. An expensive vacation certainly equals for 4 (and even more) months of my hobby. And so on...
Another user for example wrote about his bike: $ 20k for the bike + another $ 5k in the last 2 years for tuning.
Just to give you an example: My last vacation in Italy (10 days) 6 weeks ago was only $ 1,000. No expensive hotels, no expensive dinners (reading a lot on PocketBook 360 and iPad, watching movies via iPod touch on the TV). I easily could have spent another $ 3,000.
(Still, this vacation was lots of fun and exactly what I wanted. I mainly want to drive around and take lots of pictures, which isn't expensive at all.)
So, if you add up total spent for all kinds of hobbies, I guess I'm pretty average. Just more extreme in one area - and very conservative in others...