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Originally Posted by Victoria
Not during p-book era, due to storage issues and coin.
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Same...
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However, I now buy ebooks in batches during a sale, or given a gift certificate. I consider building a healthy stash of ebooks sensible retirement planning. I replace favourite paper books I'll reread, because I expect to be in smaller space. Also, I'll be on a tighter budget, and book prices will likely keep pace with inflation.
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Indeed, but I only retire in about 32-35 years, if everything stays as it is now. I hope I can still read EPUBs then, and that Calibre is still alive, or I'll be running it on a 35 year old computer, reading stuff on a 35 year old Kindle, attached to the mains permanently because of a dead battery
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This all sounds very rational, and it is, but sometimes I just go overboard 
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Kobo went overboard
I got four books for my aunt (who has my old Kindle Touch, but knows ZILCH about computers, so I buy her books), using some of the posted Kobo codes. I downloaded the books... and 2 out of 4 books were not books I ordered. They were John Grisham books. The 3rd and 4th failed: License already in use (ADE error).
Uh oh.... Shit.
*Breathe in. Breathe out. No need to explode yet.*
- Logout. Clean cookies and temp files. Login.
- Redownload books... success. All four correct ones.
Thanks for the free Grishams, Kobo. Your mistake. Maybe I'll read them someday.