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Originally Posted by Hitch
A ten year old EReader may well have a lot of good left in it. Some people could argue that you're being classist, NJ. I know better, of course. Nonetheless, that's your call. I don't have the luxury, as we all know.
Hitch
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A $49.99 classist!
I can justify buying a $4 coffee at the Sundeck on Aspen Mountain because I instinctively move the decimal point one digit to the left, to wipe out the Great Inflation of the 1970s. So I think, well, forty cents, that's the price of the New England Boiled Dinner Special on Thursdays at the diner, but it's not
totally unreasonable.
I paid something like $89 for a Smith Corona portable typewriter while I was working my way through college, which would equate to $890 in our much debauched greenbacks. So no, I have absolutely no sympathy for a reader unwilling to upgrade his klunky ten-year-old Kindle (which he paid $389 for and can now replace for $49.99!). Indeed, I hope the thing freezes on him, right at the point where Jack Reacher launches a head-butt at the first enemy in a phalanx of five.
Oh, and merry Christmas!