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The Kindle or any other reader should be free. They should earn the money by selling books. I still cringe at the thought of paying money for a device that sol
by onreact-com 17y ago
The Kindle or any other reader should be free. They should earn the money by selling books.
I still cringe at the thought of paying money for a device that solely allows me to read. It's like building a device that allows me to breathe and sell it as the next big thing.
We already can read books without a "gadget" so forcing us to buy an expensive one in order to do the same thing we've always done for free sees bizarre at the core.
- gjm11 17y agoYou can buy (and some people do buy) a device that solely allows you to breathe. For instance, a snorkel. Of course, it's more accurate to say that it's a device that allows you to breathe underwater; likewise, it's more accurate to say that a Kindle is a device that allows you to read without carrying around so many heavy books. Similarly, some people pay for cutlery and crockery to allow them to eat (more pleasantly), or telephones to allow them to talk (even when the person they're talking to isn't nearby), even though eating and talking aren't much less fundamental than breathing.
- neilc 17y agoI still cringe at the thought of paying money for a device that solely allows me to read. I don't see how that's any different than paying for a device that solely allows you to listen to music. It's like building a device that allows me to breathe and sell it as the next big thing. That's silly; you can read without a Kindle, of course. The Kindle just offers an arguably better content delivery system, and I don't think it's at all unreasonable to expect people to pay for that.