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Brent shared a pretty funny image from failblog about someone asking about a “video rental store for books”.
If you don’t feel like going and checking out the link, here’s the post:
was just thinking. my sister does -alot- of reading, and spends like $1000 a year on just books alone. most of them she reads once then never looks at again. is there any kind of like … video rental store but for books? would make things alot cheaper, plus once one person has read one the next person can get enjoyment from it etc
Okay. That’s pretty funny. So, I sent it around, and got a very wonderful reply from someone who shall remain nameless:
The humor of that unfortunately escapes me, but at least I’m not too afraid to admit it. The idea in that post sounds good, though finding a decent implementation could be fun.. Maybe NetFlix for books or something could work. Not that I’d wanna build that company. I’d actually worry about germ stuff like people excreting in undetectable quantities on their books and infecting my NetFlixBooks mail router monkies with some kind of flu. lol.
And that, my friends, is what we call an Epic Failure.
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Has anyone ever heard of a library? You can buy a year pass for like $12.50 or something ridiculously cheap. THEN, you can “rent” as many books as you’d like, as often or as little as your time and interest requires. It’s a great investment. :)
Comment by Kim Hawryluk 06.18.08 @ 1:14 pmLeave a comment
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