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Originally Posted by bkilian
Wow, so at $4-$6 per book, you must have spent around $20K, you are richer than I, sir. I buy probably close to 50 books a year, maybe more. Even at a hundred books a year, it would take me 40 years to reach your lofty limits.
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Thanks for the slightly irrelevent comment about my theoretical spending habits, I think I've made it plain that I love books. There are free sources if you find yourself financially strapped, Gutenberg being the most prominent.
It's not about lofty anything, it's about being able to utilize an expensive electronic gadget to it's full stated purpose. As noted, my ipod has no trouble reading mp3s.
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Originally Posted by bkilian
Reading at 1 book a day, it would take you over 11 years to get through your 4000. I suspect by that time the current E-readers will have no problems accomodating ridiculously huge libraries.
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Besides that not being the point, if the average mp3 is 3 minutes in length and I have 10,000, that's 30,000 minutes or 20.8333333 days. Nobody suggests that a person is going to listen to them all sequentially nor is that considered unusual. You read what you feel like, just as you listen to what you feel like. What's the big deal about having a wider choice? What's wrong with wanting one? Nobody has mentioned that the PRS-505 has a problem and this is a step towards figuring out a fix for those who are inclined to not accept artificial limits on hardware. Like I said, if my ipod couldn't read more than a thousand or so mp3s, with room to spare, Apple would be sued. Here, it's "Well, why do you want so many books?" I really don't understand that.
Oh, and I wouldn't refer to 4k+ books as "ridiculously" huge. Why is that ridiculous? What is ridiculous about that? It should be 4689. I guess everything is relative.