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The price point of books and other physical media always goes back to the collection aspect.
There was a time when physical media was a treasure. Your friends would come over and browse your library. They'd borrow a CD, a book,a game. You'd borrow one of theirs.
I have more DVDs and books than I know what to do with. Sometimes when I'm bored or home alone with nothing to do I'll open a drawer or browse a shelf. I'll discover things I'd long forgotten I had.
And then I'll spend a rainy afternoon catching up with my old friends. And when I'm done, put it back on the shelf and smile.
I'm one of those weird people that will have a library and a digital library. Unfortunately, I ran out of storage and had to digitalize the CD collection.
But now with the new generation of iPods, I can still retain some of that old treasured collection. I can browse coverflow and do the same thing I would do on my shelf.
There are mainstays in everyone's collection. I'm sure if we were to poll the peanut gallery everyone on MR would have an item, a book, movie, dvd - whatever...that they would never part with. Something they'd treasure and pass down to friends and family for years to come.
Actually - that's a fun idea. I'm heading over to the lounge.
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