OK, no dog in this particular fight but as a general principle... why? You can burn through a hundred bucks remarkably easily on subscription TV or live sports

OK, no dog in this particular fight but as a general principle... why? You can burn through a hundred bucks remarkably easily on subscription TV or live sports or computer games or board games or a few trips to the cinema or a day out or a really good bottle of something... what is it about a book that makes it "hard to justify"? ok, if you can't afford $100 for anything, you can't afford $100 for anything and that's a different (and worse) category of problem. But if you're lucky enough to have money to spend on yourself, why should an interesting book - which you can pick up secondhand and flip if it's not for you - rank low? "When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes." - Erasmus