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Originally Posted by Hrafn
The problem with this analogy is that soap is a consumerable, eBooks aren't. You have no need whatsoever for last week/month/year's soap to work with today's dispenser or dish, because that soap doesn't exist any more. However you do have a need for your prior eBook purchases to work with your current eReader. In a worst case scenario, the eBook retailer may have closed up shop (or for other reasons not allow you to download it in a new format) and your old eReader may have stopped working.
Soap and eBooks aren't so much an analogy as a massive disanalogy.
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I assume you have never stocked up on something because it was on sale or bought a rather expensive dispenser and found the product that you thought was God's gift discontinued.
Soap came to mind for me although I wasn't thinking analogy probably, (does kind of imply analogy?) because I purchased a soap dispenser for my antique dishwasher which works wonderfully except it no longer dispenses soap reliably. It is perfect but I can no longer buy the refills. Anyway not analogy but perhaps vaguely similar situation
I actually have not experienced any need my previous book purchases to work with any specific ereader as I have computers and tablets that allow me to read them again and I have a TBR list as long as my arm and at least two other peoples. Still for the technologically challenged who have a very short list of books they want to read the concern is understandable. No one wants to have to rebuy an item they don't have to whether it is an ebook, or a consumable or say a paper book that has been lost or destroyed.
Helen
Edit:Ps I have also stocked up on soap or other items on sale and had the dispenser break. And my sister stocked up on inkjet cartridges for a princely sum and her printer broke and she was unable to get a replacement that used these cartridges.