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Originally Posted by DrMoze
I hook up my Reader to a pc every 2-3 weeks to charge it and load borrowed e-books, and maybe add some more books I've picked up to my growing stash on the Reader. Clearly, the capability of borrowing books from a library (including many current e-books) is more "cost-effective" than having to purchase these same books on a Kindle, even if they can be downloaded wirelessly.
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If that was the choice, but it's not. You can download kazillions of books for the Kindle without "purchasing" them, as you specified. And you can download them for free. I've downloaded 20 or so books from Project Gutenberg totally for free on my Kindle 2 since I got it a few weeks ago.
It sounds to me like you don't understand that.
As for borrowing books from the library, sure, that's a benefit you don't have on the Kindle. If you think that's worth more than being able to browse the web for free anywhere you can use a cell phone, have at it.
I do get books from Overdrive, and it's nice, but nothing like being able to browse the web for free from, say, the train.
And let me repeat that, because I have a feeling some Sony people won't understand it. Yes, you can download books totally for free, with no charge for putting them on your Kindle wirelessly, none whatsoever, zero.