Just today, I was taking about 1/3 of my pbook collection to resell for store credit at the local used bookstore. I made the error of telling them I was moving to ebooks. "Oh, we are sorry to hear that. What if you drop your reader in the tub? What if you are out reading in a field and get hit by lightning? What if your reader gets stolen on a bus?"
All of these were said very tongue-in-cheek, but still. I joked back that I don't read in the tub, we live in AZ and there aren't any fields, and our mass-transit system is so awful that I have my own car. They gave me over $200 in store credit, which my kids will enjoy for their video game, dvd and personal book collections over the next year.
