Thread: So you have a ebook device. When will you upgrade?
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Old 06-21-2007, 01:05 PM   #96
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Sorry - I really don't see what the problem is with this. I can read it with the proprietory reader it needs - that's exactly what I bought it for. I don't want to do anything else with it.

Perhaps the difference between our viewpoints is that I don't regard an eBook as a "lifetime investment". It's a few hours of entertainment that I paid a few $ for, and that's how I regard it. I don't expect to be able to read it in 20 years time, and more than I expect to be able to read a paperback I buy today in 20 years time. If I want to re-read it in 20 years, I'll buy another copy then. Books are cheap!
Maybe someone could set up a service proposing that you can read such or such book for a lesser price than the sevice offered now and when you land on the last page... Poof! it disappears. Just like the ball on that last minigolf hole.
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