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Originally Posted by Ranga
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I've always collected "stuff".
As a child, I've bought maybe 8.000 comics.
As a teen, I've bought about 4.000 paper books.
As a student, I've bought about 800 CDs.
Then I've bought about 1.000 DVDs.
(I've skipped Blue-Rays, as I hate "moving parts").
Now I have about 2.000 iTunes movies, 6.000 iTunes TV shows and 1.500 iPad/iPhone apps.
(Just to mention: I don't have rich parents, I've always had several jobs while in school or while being a student).
This may seem a lot and awfully expensive. It certainly would be expensive, if I bought such amounts at once.
But I've bought most of the eBook readers over a period of about 18 months. Maybe 1 reader per month on average. Is € 300 per month a lot for one's hobby? I totally understand, € 300 in lots of countries is a huge amount. But given the "average EU citizen", I'm pretty sure there are millions of people with way more expensive hobbies.
I've met people, who spent € 10.000 on a single vacation. Or who buy a new car (and I'm not talking about a car worth € 2.000, more in the range > € 100.000) every 1 or 2 years.
My hobby obviously is way cheaper.
Does it make sense? To me, it does.
Is it necessary? Definitely not. I've used most of my readers for less than 20 hours. But 20 hours means 2 days of fun - sometimes that's worth a lot.