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Originally Posted by HarryT
eBooks are a heck of a lot cheaper than having to buy a larger house to store all the pBooks I'd like to have.
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Yes, exactly!
The reality is that I just cannot 'afford' to keep every p-book I read, and the library is great for fairly disposable best-sellers, but if it's something like a series or if it's a great book I will want to re-read, I do like to own it. And as I have shown with my calculations, it does not cost that much to do it
Certainly it is a better value to buy it in e and keep it than to buy it in P and have to get rid of it
For the curious, the devices I am counting in the tally:
eBookwise (about $150)
Dana ($50 on ebay)
2 Palm m125's (screen was faulty on first one) ($50 each)
So, $300 for devices
And books...
1) Free Reads
http://delicious.com/ficbot/E-BOOK
2) Fictionwise
http://delicious.com/ficbot/Fictionwise
Plus a few others (Tor freebies etc) which did not have internet links. The freebie count might also be slightly higher as I did not start tracking until I was shelling out money at Fictionwise and became curious about the economics. I had to reconstruct from memory my Project Gutenberg reads and I may have missed a few.
Edited to add: FormatC, yes, there are other benefits too for us non-Americans
When Fictionwise offers a lower list price than Amazon.com (which is already a lower list price than Canadian retail price, AND you don't have to pay to ship it) the savings can be extraordinary!