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Originally Posted by Iphinome
Funny, I bought my kindle because i decided it would save me both money and space. How much do dead tree copies of public domain books coast in the US? $5 or $6 if you're lucky, maybe $10 or $12 if you're not? Checking my bookshelf the average price of my books that are in the public domain is $8, so 20 of them pays for the kindle 1 assuming i would have bought them. The ones on my bookshelf tell me I want my own copy of works in the public domain so it works out to me not willing to pay higher prices.
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Or you could have read those public domain books on your pre-existing computer or phone or other device without additional expense.
Thinking of the device as something that "pays for itself" is flawed, and probably should be avoided.