Well you can now get a Kindle in Woolworths (they are grocery stores here in Australia). Saw an ad on the television last night and noted that you could store up to 3500 books on them.
And it struck me that:
a) that’s a lot books to buy
b) that’s a lot of books to read
I wondered if that really was such a good selling point.
I did some rough calculations. I am a fairly solid reader (obviously, hello - book blogger and reviewer). I would manage a book a week if I am working and anywhere between 3-6 per week when I am not. But lets say on average I would read about 80, 400 page novels a year.
If I filled up a Kindle it would take me 43.75 years to read every book on it. At an average price of $5 per book it would cost me $17, 500. Yes I know you can get free books.
So is quoting a ridiculously high book storage number really a selling point?
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TansyRR · 703 weeks ago
Personally I appreciate products/books that don't waste or demand too much of my time over any other.
But I guess the benefit of the kindle is not that you HAVE to read that many, but that you have such a large choice at any given time? I guess, again, the world is divided into those who would feel pressured to read them all, and those who would not. I've found with my honey's new kindle that I am being hugely restrained in what books I buy/acquire for it because of the pressure I feel. I'm already oppressed by my groaning to read shelf, and if I don't buy a book that I know or think I want to read, it's far more likely to be because of the image of that shelf looming at me than because of its cost. Which is not to say I have an unlimited book budget, but my time budget trumps anything else.
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SB Wright 110p · 703 weeks ago
I note also that you refer to it as your other ha;ves Kindle, listening to the podcast I thought I could hear a distict langauage of ownership sufacing :)
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