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Old 02-22-2009, 07:34 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by Alisa View Post
Personally, my biggest savings has come from the free samples. I'm reading more than I used to but buying fewer books and buying them for less. Still, I didn't buy a reader to save money. I bought it for my own convenience and to cut down on the space devoted to book storage in my house. Heck, $350 isn't a whole lot to pay for a bookshelf.
I mostly agree with the above - though I buy more books than before since having the options to explore tons of authors in e made me buy quite a few of their books, both print and e, books that otherwise I would not have discovered

Selling an ebook device on savings based on purchases of ebooks vs similar print books is disingenuous though and to my mind it is exactly the kind of argument that makes one shy away from them.
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