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date 2010-02-17
tags All Life Thinking Hits
title Why it's worth it to buy the book
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If a book is worth reading, it's worth buying too.
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If you're reading a book primarily to gain value from it(as opposed to reading it for pleasure) you should always buy it unless it's a bad book.
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The amount of value you can get from a book varies wildly.
Most books are worthless.
Some can change your life.
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For simplicity, let's say the value you can derive from any one book varies from 1 cent to $100,000(there are many, many more worthless books than there are of the really valuable kind).
The _cost_ however, does not vary as much. Books rarely cost more than $100, and generally average to about $15.
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You shouldn't read a book that you think will offer you less than $100 in value. Time could be better spent reading more important books.
So let's assume you never read a book that gives you less than $100 in value. Thus, the cost of a physical copy of the book ***is at most 15% (using the $15 average price) of the value gained***.
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Would owning the book help you extract 15% more from it?
It nearly always will.
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When you own a book, you can take it anywhere.
You can mark it up.
You can flip quickly through the pages.
You can bookmark it.
You can easily share it with a friend and then dicuss it.
If these things don't help you get 15% more out of that book, I'd be very surprised.
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Where it gets even more certain, is when you read a really valuable book--say a book offering $1,000 of value. Now you'd only need to get 1.5% more out of that book.
The investment in that case is a no brainer.
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# Notes
1. Even if a book is more expensive, say $50, the numbers don't change too much.
2. Pardon my scribbling. Got a new toy.
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