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Originally Posted by mgmueller
How can one overdo something, by not spending time on it?
I simply don't care about backup and such or the few dozen titles I may buy twice or triple per year. We're talking about a few hundred Euros per year tops. And that's exactly my point. Spending time on something, that's paying almost zero dividends.
On the other hand, I already expressed: If someone is doing it for fun, that's an entirely different topic. But then it's not about savings or dividends, which had been the original argument of some.
Same about me being in the forum:
a.) I'm always doing it in parallel to something else, hence my frequent typos or mixing of English and German spelling. Usually I'm checking the forum while being in a conference call. Right now I'm waiting on my BlueRay rip being done and starting to watch all episodes of "Columbo" again.
b.) I'm not joining the discussions, to save any money. Quite the contrary, usually I find inspiration for another gadget I have to buy.
To repeat myself:
I've bought about 2500 eBooks over the years.
Downloading them to the PC, stripping from DRM, converting to another format easily takes 1 to 5 minutes per book (depending on whether I touch the metadata).
That's 40 to 200 hours.
I read about 100 books per year.
If I re-purchase 20 out of those 100 books (I do so less often than some years ago, I more likely will switch to the respective reader, but just for argument's sake), that's € 200.
Spending 40 to 200 hours, to save € 200? Financially, this doesn't make any sense at all (as an example: Minimum wage in Germany will be € 8,50 next year). Even if I would re-purchase majority of my meager 100 books I read per year, it would be a doubtful savings model.
And even if I only would spend time for the few books I'd have to re-purchase, figures wouldn't work out.
That's all I have been saying/writing. Not even close to millions, quite the contrary.
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You'd actually have a point with your money-saving argument if you were being paid for your free/spare time. You are not.
If you have to re-purchase 20 books because you lost access to them then that is down to you own fault; you are spending money that you could have used for other things if you'd just taken a few moments to archive your book properly.