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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Understood. We're just talking about different things, I guess. I wouldn't call what i do (and what issybird described) as "on demand reading." A more accurate moniker for what we were discussing would be JIT Buying/Reading: only purchasing a book when you're ready to begin reading it (from any and all sources), and not worrying about maintaining personal, digital libraries of read books. We weren't discussing paying a subscription fee for unlimited access to limited choices. That's something I certainly wouldn't have any interest in.
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ok, yea that's a bit different that I was thinking that we were talking about. Thank you for clarifying what you were talking about.
My two biggest reasons for scarfing up ebooks when I see them rather than waiting until I'm ready to read them are 1) I've seen quite a few ebooks disappear from the stores over the years. Most of the time, I'm not even aware of it until someone mentions a book not being available and I think "what do you mean, I bought it". 2) I have a terrible memory for such things and unless I go ahead and buy it, odds are that I'll forget about the book. I do know that many people use wishlist to manage such things. I do that on audible.com, but once again, I have had a number of audio books go unavailable after I put the on the wishlist. That's why I go ahead and buy something that I know that I'm going to listen to, rather than just "that looks like it might be interesting".