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Originally Posted by conan50
That's what I was thinking. If I was a 'read it only once' person I could save some big bucks and just use the library, Overdrive, or one of those subscription services.
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For me it's all about convenience. When I decide I want to read something, I want to read it right now. I have no time to see if it's available at the library, or if it is, to see if the waiting list is a mile long. Subscription services are too limiting: books that catch my eye are often not available. I want to spend my time
reading books, not wasting time finding out whether or not the book's even available to BE read right now.
I don't read things just because they're free and/or available, I read them because they
interest me. And I find that even books I thought were only OK are quite worth the price for a single reading. Four or five evenings-worth of engrossing entertainment?? Yes, please. I find that a bargain even at $16.
Buying means my reading schedule is entirely MY reading schedule. I don't have to worry about dropping what I'm currently reading because I just popped to the top of a library waiting list on a book that I was interested in reading three months ago. I already read it three months ago--and four or five like it since.
And no ... I'm not independently wealthy. I just know that if I DIDN'T spend sixteen bucks on a book to sit at home and read, I'd be leaving the house to go do stuff that's going to wind up cost me a heck of a lot more than that. It costs $50 just to walk out the door these days.
