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@HarryT, just a couple of points:
1 - Quite a few MobileRead members do, in fact, re-read books. Many of them do a lot of this, according to the poll I set up.
2 - I don't buy take-away pizza. We make it at home. We rarely eat out -- can't afford it. Every penny counts in our household. Only the tight storage issues allowed me to justify an ereader at all (we can live in a smaller house as a result) and only my graduate studies let me justify my iLiad -- used, at half price-- to save money for paper and toner, as well as storage space again, for all the journal articles I'm assigned as part of my coursework.
For you, reading a book may be a one-time pleasure, and worth the money you pay for a book to read it once. I can understand and respect that. But for me, any book I'm paying for needs to be worth reading more than once, and I need to have some confidence I'll be able to do so. I know I'm not in the majority on this, but I don't think I'm alone, or in a very small minority, either.
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