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[Manic]

I mean you personally might not see a use for an e-reader but it's useful. I mean you must love carrying books around with you or something. Or are one of those people that likes having books on his shelf so people think you actually read anything.

See, that's the thing. Before e-readers, who carried several books around with them all the time? I sure as hell don't. I carry around one book at a time. I carry a novel with me until I finish it. Then I shelve/sell it and carry around a different book until I finish that.

 

[Darthphere]

I'm not one of those "I love the smell and texture of a real book" people. I just don't see the purpose in spending $100-$200 for a book reader when I can just buy the books and keep the extra $200.

And you never will. I mean we've made a compelling case for them. I mean, I can understand if you don't want to pay $100 up front for something that will pay for itself in the short term. $114 (the cheapest, ad supported Kindle cost) is not something to throw out lightly. But again, I've spent more on bookshelves than that over time.

 

[Darthphere]

See, that's the thing. Before e-readers, who carried several books around with them all the time? I sure as hell don't. I carry around one book at a time. I carry a novel with me until I finish it. Then I shelve/sell it and carry around a different book until I finish that.

Lots of people. I've seen kids in college that carry more than one novel at a time. Either way, before e-readers it wasn't practical to do so. We're also not factoring in that you can download newspapers and some magazines on your e-reader.

 

[Manic]

You know what? Fine. You people win. I'm gonna go out and buy a Kindle today.

 

[Darthphere]

You know what? Fine. You people win. I'm gonna go out and buy a Kindle today.

You might want to check out the Nook.

 

[Mystirious]

I prefer a real book to an e-book but i have nothing against them either

No plans to get one of those e readers at the moment though

Well, several of those are a few bucks cheaper than even the paperback edition. And factor in a lot of the free books they have (such as Frankenstein, Last Man, Oz series, Sherlock Holmes collection, etc.), and it probably wouldn't take that long for it to pay off itself, assuming you used those to their full advantage.

That is pretty neat actually the free books sound kind of cool

 

[Hound55]

Good. I can finally quit this site.

For the past two years I've been a plant for Amazon, with my sole objective to get Manic to buy one of our products.

I can finally return home for six months before I'm re-deployed to a fantasy football site to get a fat little kid from Portland, Maine to buy The Hobbit by audio-book...

 

[Darthphere]

I found this to be hilarious.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/ar...-immigrants-maybe-not-as-lazy-as-once-thought

 

[Mystirious]

I knew it

I just knew it Hound

You know what? Fine. You people win. I'm gonna go out and buy a Kindle today.

Don't give in to peer pressure Manic

 

[Manic]

Don't give in to peer pressure Manic

No no, I give up. I must buy an e-reader. It will save me money and shelf space and give me access to free books.

 

[BlackLantern]

I found this to be hilarious.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/ar...-immigrants-maybe-not-as-lazy-as-once-thought

indeed

I wonder if any of Georgias unemployed showed up at those farms looking for work

probably not

 

[Darthphere]

indeed

I wonder if any of Georgias unemployed showed up at those farms looking for work

probably not

It's so much easier to to get a check every month from the government.

 

[BlackLantern]

and then ***** about how much the guv'mint only cares about illegals

 

[Darthphere]

On the flipside, it's not like the farmer's want to pay someone minimum wage when they were paying the last guy in cabbage.

 

[Hound55]

How much cabbage is 5 and a half bucks..?

 

[Mystirious]

No no, I give up. I must buy an e-reader. It will save me money and shelf space and give me access to free books.

Getting the Oz books for free does sound kind of fab

 

[BlackLantern]

On the flipside, it's not like the farmer's want to pay someone minimum wage when they were paying the last guy in cabbage.

and that's what makes this whole mess a quagmire.....Americans complain about immigrants taking the jobs, but want cheap food

anytime someone *****es about things being "Made in America", I ask if they are ready to pay triple for it

How much cabbage is 5 and a half bucks..?

a few heads

 

[Mystirious]

Wait was he actually paying this guy in cabbage

Because as well as being frakking insane I think that's probably not legal

 

[Darthphere]

So is hiring illegal immigrants. Hasn't stopped anyone yet.

 

[Manic]

Some American farmers get most of their manual labor done by hiring illegal migrant workers who get paid unfair tiny wages. It's very not legal. Farmers get away with it because the workers shouldn't legally be in this country to begin with.

Ah, America. We're a country built on the backs of slaves and indentured servants.

 

[BlackLantern]

and those tiny wages keep food prices cheap

 

[Darthphere]

They're still unfair.

 

[BlackLantern]

agreed...my meaning was that Americans want their cheap food but don't realize its tiny wages and cutting corners that makes it cheap

 

[Manic]

I think everyone should get paid handsomely for a hard day's work, and to do otherwise is a disservice to the human race!

*takes off Nike shoes, casually throws them into a fire, and buys a new pair*

 

[Hound55]

So is hiring illegal immigrants. Hasn't stopped anyone yet.

Well... it has kept all of the farmers who haven't actually started doing it in the first place from doing it.

But it does make it hard to compete and it is unfair to those who do try to get by legally, since these practices drop the market price of their crops.