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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Dreadful!  It's such a huge opportunity cost loss for kobo when they over charge for their ereaders, that is opportunity cost loss for all the ebooks that could have been purchased from their store instead ....
Not to mention that if someone favours reading, and regards that as the priority, they'll say bugger you to kobo and not update their ereader, eh (and after all, Amazon ebooks are quite often cheaper than Kobo and very easy to to reformat the font  ) |
Sorry, but I don't think it is expensive and I will gladly buy one ASAP.
Just because you find it to be expensive and not worth it doesn't make your opinion a given for the rest of human kind.
I bought my KA1 exactly two years ago, which boils its costs down to 10€ per month. As ebooks are cheaper than paper books I still save a lot of money on books compared to my pre-reader spending AND have a better reading experience.
I also use the library heavily since I got an ereader. When it meant going to the library to borrow books I never did that, because I always ended up being late and paying fines. I do read two to three books per week and used to spend between 200€ and 400€ per month on books. Now I am down to maybe 20€ monthly.
I'd gladly spend 500€ every two years on a new ereader if they'd cost as much and still be a happy money saving camper.