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While many of the individual titles that I buy for the Kindle aren't much of a costs savings if any at all, I find on the whole I am spending less on books now. The free samples keep me from buying books that I would have likely bought and either not finished or not read at all. When I went to the bookstore before, I used to buy multiple books at once. I would try to anticipate what I would want to be reading for the next month or so. My moods change and sometimes the fancy for a book will pass. Sometimes I'll read the first chapter or two and not get into the book. All that was money (and resources) wasted. With the Kindle, these books are free samples. They cost me nothing until I actually want to read the book. Add to that all the older public domain works that I can get for free now rather than spending $5 or $10 on the paper copy and I think over time the Kindle may pay for itself while improving my overall reading experience.
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