Thread: Publishers need to push ebook reader adoption
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Old 10-16-2007, 01:19 PM   #27
Alisa
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
For me, the benefit is space. I live in a very small house. I've got 15,000 eBooks on an external USB hard disk. There's no way that I could store 15,000 paper books, or even 1,000 for that matter.
Being the dork that I am, I just calculated the approximate cost of the book storage space in my small house. This is not even including interest, taxes, insurance, etc. over the years. This is just the number of square feet multiplied by the cost per square foot of the house. $16,000 to store a bunch of dead trees that make me sneeze. Of course it's not like I'm going to be getting rid of these any time soon. The mere thought gives my dear husband a panic attack. He loves books as objects. But I really do not want to give up any more precious space than I already have. If I could wave a wand and have a good reader and all my books in DRM-free electronic format, I'd do it. Next to $16,000 in space and probably a couple thousand in bookshelves, $300 or so for a reader looks cheap.
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