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Originally Posted by Poppaea
Can someone please tell me, why I always read the readers are expensive? (...)
I don't get it. My 350 cost 180€ thats 255$ which is a lot more than you pay in the States for it (its 129$ in the US) and I still don't think it is expensive. With all the freebies and deals there is no need to buy a lot of books so it saves me some in the long run.
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So please, do tell me, why you think it is expensive! I really wanna know!
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My guess would be that people making that sort of comment aren't considering your/our
entire book-buying budget. They see it in terms of "I can buy the book for $30, but you paid five (or more) times that to buy a gizmo to do the same thing --
and you have to buy the book as well."
They also aren't factoring in the convenience of carrying a very large library in your (okay, moderately large) pocket. Or of being able to buy books while on-the-go. Or that e-books are (usually) quite a bit cheaper than DTB. Or the dictionary look-up. Or the ease of following footnote links to the footnote and back.
And they certainly aren't including the coolness
factor.