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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Same, except that I bought my first ereader myself because I simply had no more room for physical books in my small apartment.  My income was small too back then and when Amazon released a cheap basic Kindle in 2011 I seized the opportunity and never looked back. |
I worked at Barnes and Noble when the first Nook came out, but I didn't really pay much attention to it. Without really looking at an e-ink reader I dismissed ebooks with all the usual bullshit excuses you still hear: I just can't read on a screen, I'd miss the smell of books, yatta, yatta, yatta...
The commercials for the Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight made me want to go and look at one (I'd stopped working at B&N at that point). I bought it, figuring I'd play with it a bit, but mostly I'd wasted money on a gadget.
Once I started reading on it, I haven't read a paper book.