Thread: Will e-book readers eventually go back to paper books?
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Old 09-17-2011, 07:42 PM   #30
Tony1988
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Originally Posted by cfrizz View Post
Reading is one of my major forms of entertainment, but I pretty much stopped buying paperbacks back in the early 2000's simply for space reasons, expense and eyesight.
I can understand the other reasons but expense?? Ebooks are not really cheaper (some are more) and buying a new ereader every couple years at $100+ a pop is going to ruin any savings you MAY get buying some ebooks.

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Originally Posted by mikeayers View Post
The one thing that paperbacks have over ebooks is the used book market. With paperbacks you get a serious discount as the book ages.... with ebooks that does not seem to be the case.

And this is the one reason paper books will stay with us till the end of the world.(ok maybe not the end of the world.LOL) Thousands read books frugally. They buy and sell cheap, trade etc. This is something that just cannot be done with ereaders as effectively.(unless you are content reading the same free classics over and over again)
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