Martin, congrats on your new purchase, and thanks for laying out your justifications so succinctly - was that for our benefit or yours, lol! Just out of interest, did you (or anyone else) manage to get your hands on an iliad before you bought one, or are you buying 'unseen'. I'm still on the fence regarding a dedicated reader; I'm sure having one in my hands for ten minutes would help me make the jump, but it seems to be absurdly difficult to organise (more friction).
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Local bookstore is still cheaper (at least around my place)... I'm trying to keep this an Apples-to-Apples comparison.
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Well that was kind of my point; round
my place, that
is an apples-to-apples comparison. And incidentally,
my local bookshop has Spook Country listed for the equivalent of $28...
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The pBook is of much better value since it can be resold after you finish reading it.
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I appreciate that your experiences may well be different to mine, and if you can sell books on at a price that makes it worth the effort, then good on you, but round here you can't even give them away - literally, even charity shops are refusing to take books, as they take up space and nobody buys them. Sad fact of life, I'm afraid.
Cheers, Pete.