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Originally Posted by RWood
Staying behind the cutting edge is less expensive and often offers more options than would otherwise be available.
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Yeah, but for good or ill, in the case of e-readers, the only 'options" that mattered to me were screen readability, battery life, and being able to read a non-locked format (i.e. RTF), so it was jump on the first round of e-ink, or keep waiting 'til the prices on e-ink dropped ... and I'd already been waiting for those features for several years, so ....
I keep my change jug (a 30" tall plastic coke bottle) in the back of the closet where it doesn't 'self-remind' of its existence (or contents). It helps that my wife isn't inclined to care about it anyway (I recently pulled about $4 -- and about 2lbs -- in
pennies (I left her the 'silver' coins) out of her
wallet (hey, she makes me hold her purse sometimes, and that thing's heavy enough as it is!), so she's not likely to mess with my cache (pardon the pun).
It further helps that she's the tight one in the family, and I'm the spender. We've managed to meet somewhere in the middle on the matter: she'll spend money when she needs to, and sometimes when she wants to, and I don't buy
all the Battlestar Galactica toys off of e-Bay.
