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Originally Posted by efindel
[...]but she has no interest in buying an e-book reader right now. Why? Because, while she's a heavy reader, she gets her books from the used book store in her town. She's used to paying a dollar or less for a book. She's also used to being able to buy a bunch of books, read them, then bring them back and get some reasonable fraction of what she paid for them as credit toward getting different books.
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Exactly why I don't buy an e-book reader for my mom, even though she goes through HUGE piles of books. She buys all of her "trash novels" (er, sorry mom!) at about $.50 each at the local thrift store, then donates them back. This was also my biggest hesitation before buying an e-book reader, I also bought the majority of my books used -- it's definitely not a money saver for me.