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Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by felipemnoa on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @03:08PM (#3271496)
>>I tend to read a book once and then I am done with it

This may be true for novels, but science, engineering and math books are usually used for a long, long time. I still have all of mine for reference and every once in a while I do come back to many of them.

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Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by timwiseman on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @04:40PM (#3271867)
I used to do that a lot with my math books and computer science books (I have a degree in math and work as a programmer), but I eventually found that while I prefer to use a book to learn new material, I virtually always use the Internet for a quick reference and only rarely refer back to them.
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