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Originally Posted by crossi
Not at all pointless. For heavy readers. The ones who need these things because they carry a book with them everywhere. For those who read maybe 5 book a year, I think that's the national average, and likely only read for a few minutes a few times a week most likely at home, the expense of an ereader seems unnecessary. For those people reading is simply not a high priority. It's appalling but a large number of people in the US don't read ANY books.
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I only read a few books per year. It usually takes me over a month to read a book. I read 1 to 3 books a week from second grade through high school. That dropped to 1 to 3 books per month in college and grad school. After school, it dropped to less than a book a year, sometimes with years between finishing one book and startiing another. I went from almost always finiishing a book to almost never finishing a book. This went on for decades.
I tried reading on laptops. Didn;t work. Then in 2009 I bought a Kindle 2 and gradually started reading more. But I am still only up to a few books per year. But that is still hundreds percent above what I was doing for many years and has been going on for several years. It is all due to having a decent ereader. I only have a few minutes to read per day, and almost all of them are away from home. Even at home, reading on an e-reader works better for me.
Also, even though savings on e-books below street price is often tiny or negative, the occasional big savings can cover the cost of a reader pretty quickly.
I carry my books everywhere precisely because I don't have much time for reading and don't always know when that time will be.