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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I certainly wouldn't spend $100/year for a library card, and am very happy with my $300 Reader, which I expect to be useful for a good deal more than three years. Also, I expect it to weigh less than half a pound, no matter how much activity I'm doing with it. And I don't expect to have to make annoying trips at odd times if I've mis-scheduled my week, in order to keep from paying extra fees for the books I want to read.
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Ok... I think maybe you are not aware that we are talking about the NY Public Library's eBook system. There are no annoying trips and no extra fees. These are ebooks that you "check out" and they are automatically returned. Many feel that for $100 a year they are able to check out 10-20 books per month it would be quite worth it. If you figure it out, $100 would by you about 10 books. But, for the $100 library fee you could check out say 10 a month which would cost you $1200 to buy assuming the same $10 per book.
You still need your $300 reader BTW. And the person I was replying to already has a $360 Kindle.
Also, this person said they wanted to buy the Sony reader because their library didn't have a very large selection of books.
Of course, you are welcome to your opinions and can do what you want with your money. But it certainly sounded like you were comparing getting pbooks at a library compared to ebooks as we were discussing.
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