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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
I see a lot of people question whether library useage is really widespread. I, for one, was seriously thinking of switching to a Sony 505 in order to get library books. In this economy, shelling out $400 for an ereader is not an easy decision - to then be told you have to BUY books instead of getting them from the LIBRARY is just too much.
And I did buy books from sources other than Amazon because they had lower prices. Not frequently, but a couple times. What this is doing is putting the kindle even further out of reach for most people. I intend to fill my kindle with free books from the kindle store and buy a Sony in order to read library books. I was looking at one at Target last night, but all they had was silver. Of course, when the next Stephen King comes out, I will buy it from a source other than Amazon.
For us library users, switching to ebooks was a big decision. If we are being asked to end useage of the library and spend money on all our reading material, that bodes ill for the library and for ebooks. This just might be the end of ebooks.
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I agree with you.
Now that I live in an area that I am able to order and receive within a reasonable amount of time just about any pbook I like from our public library, I don't feel the need to purchase books. If I happen to be somewhere and see I book I really want and haven't read yet, I will buy it, but usually it's around 20 or so books a year.
I check out around 300 per year from the library. I can't justify spending that much on books. I was hoping to continue to check out books (now ebooks) for the most part and supplement with purchasing from Amazon.
This is really due to the fact that we're going to Switzerland for 2-3 years and the cost of books in English there is too high for me to read the amounts I like to. Our library here has a good selection (not great, but good!) of ebooks I like to read so I figured I'd get an ebook reader and continue to use the library.
I only have the Kindle PID and download the books to read on the Kindle. If that goes away, I've lost the point in having the Kindle.