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Originally Posted by rixte
Well, and that's the thing - he might be a relatively avid reader, but simple math would show that at 150 books a year, it'd take him over 133 years to read everything he's downloaded!
I absolutely get the 'never be without a book' obsessively over-collecting. I do that myself. Ever since I've had a paycheck, I've always gone on book splurges where I buy 10 books, read 5, buy another 10 ... so the backlog of unread gets greater. BUT each of the books has been evaluated as something I theoretically want to read. Bulk downloads don't do that, that's just having for the sake of hoarding.
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I partially can agree to your logic.
Myself, my over-collecting is about factor 10: I buy about 200 to 300 books per year, read about 120 and already have a backlog of maybe 1.000+ books.
His over-collecting with factor 100+ definitely is over-kill.
But then again his argument: There's no harm for him.
The download is done in minutes.
Strorage is not an issue.
Who knows if he still could download them that easily in a few years...
Anyway:
I've said it already. This group is way too small to generate any kind of valid statistics out of it. But in this tiny group, which basically represents most of the owners of readers I know, it's a pretty consistent picture: Mass downloads, because it's easy enough and doesn't consume much space and isn't considered harmful "as I wouldn't buy the book and so can't hurt any purchase"...