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The best part of the Kindle, is the ability to buy collections of the classics for $0.99, which would otherwise have been massive tomes in the physical world.

• zokier 11y ago
  Kinda weird, I have not (yet) felt the compulsion to shop ebooks on Kindle that I won't begin reading immediately. And I do have ridiculous Steam backlog and relatively many unready physical books, so I definitely am familiar with the phenomenon. But with Kindle buying books as you go is so easy and pre-buying books does not really seem to give similar benefit like for example Steam sales or having the book available like with physical books. With Kindle if I find an interesting book I can just click it to my wishlist (which is very convenient) and I can generally trust that when I want to actually read it it is still available and not significantly more expensive. In contrast if I see interesting game on Steam at -75% the rationale for buying it is that the day I want to play it it will probably cost a lot more if I don't buy it now.
• ctdonath 11y ago
  The "Electric Monk" chapter of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency comes to mind, the convenience of buying e-books being that the computer will read them for you.