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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Alas, in as much as you cannot tell if someone has chronic pain issues just by looking at them, neither can you tell if someone is poor just by looking at them.
Quite a few poor people have wealthier relatives who can help with hand-me-down clothes and gifted eReaders. Just because you can't realistically pay for eBook rentals doesn't mean that you're going to be walking around wearing cardboard on your feet.
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I have now gifted two e-readers to friends who would never have been able to afford them. Both are older. One of them has been intermittently homeless, and had to give up on owning books. The other is living on a fixed income in a very small apartment, and has reached an age when books are hard to carry around. I gave them these readers so they could indulge their love of reading despite their inability to stockpile dead tree books. Both of these people are heavy library users and would benefit from the ability to get ebooks from the library, and neither could afford to pay for library ebooks.