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Originally Posted by nelsonescorcio
It is frequently worth it, yes.
The dollar is pretty cheap againts the euro (€ 1 equalls 1,5 dollars!), and you get some fantastic prices in some online american stores. In many (most!) cases it is still much cheaper to buy in the States - even after all the fees and taxes! 
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When we had $2 to the £1 it was worth buying quite a number of things, but for a lot of items now when you add in VAT, importy duty and clearance fees plus the extra delivery costs and loss of warrenty + no easy return the little bit you save doesn't make it worth while imo. Clearance fees have been anything from £0 when it went through customs without a hitch to between £8 and £25 depending on the delivery company used
Hopefully they'll partner with a store in the EU and release here though. I'm quite happy with my Halin+OI currently, but as prices drop I wouldn't mind buying one or two readers as presents, especially so with the option to lend books, depending how that works. Most of our reading is totally different genres and authors but there's a small enough overlap to make lending attractive and it's a nice way to get introduced to new authors. Really interested in seeing how they're going to make that work.