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Originally Posted by Katsunami
That's BS, crappadidoodaa and just plain baloney too.
(edit: Next part of this post is assuming that you don't have to support a wife/husband and 5 children in college on a minimum wage.)
I don't know how it is in the US, but to compare... a Kobo Aura (HD, the 6.8 one) will cost you €150 in the Netherlands. That's USD 199. Often I hear people wailing how "expensive" an e-reader is, and how books cost "a lot of money" and that this is "hard to spend that amount of cash on entertainment in these tough times".
Those same people, for some reason, will easily blow €50 on an evening in a bar, drinking 25 beers. (A beer over here costs around €2), and then add another €10 to go eat something afterward. Many people I know go out very often; some of them each day of the weekend.
Just skip one day of drinking, three weeks in a row, or drink/eat half for 6 days, and you have your e-reader. You even have €30 to spare for your first 5-6 books. (If you read English, you can actually go cheaper than €5 per book.)
€150 for an e-reader, which can last several years if you're a bit lucky, is NOTHING if it allows me to save 50% on each book (if reading in English), get lots of books for free even, and save entire walls of space in my house.
For a lot of people, it's all about priorities. The e-reader is not expensive. They're just not readers, and so they can't justify the "hefty" price tag.
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Haha
I easily spend more $100 a week on things that aren't good for me and have no lasting value, and I am conservative compared to most people I konow. I doubt I would pay more than $400 on an ereader, but why not I wonder. I spent more than that on my last TV and I rarely watch it. I bought it for the use of my mother and sister when they visit. How weird is that
Helen