{"id":5075,"date":"2010-11-10T06:22:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T10:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2010-11-10T14:14:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T18:14:48","slug":"library-netflix-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2010\/11\/10\/library-netflix-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Netflix Model"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I tend to buy books. As Heather pointed out on Flickr<\/a>, I could save lots of money by checking books out from the library. I don’t for one big reason. I am lazy. Most of my purchases fall within a sweet spot of wanting to read more about something because I heard about it on the radio, saw a television episode on a topic, read something in another book, or talked to someone about it. My memory is poor so I only buy a book if I happen to hit the bookstore prior to forgetting. For most of these that means Amazon. To get a book from a library would be mean remembering to go there AND<\/strong> the book I wanted which is unlikely.<\/p>\n

However, books sit on my shelf for sometimes years before I get around to reading them. I also tend to read several at a time which slows my pace on any particular book to about 250 pages a month unless I devote more time to it.<\/p>\n

Netflix works similarly for me. I add things to the queue and maybe eventually get around to getting the disk. I’ll watch a disk a week maybe. Netflix’s Watch Instantly is much better for me as I can pick whatever I want off the list and see it then. Even then I might watch half and watch the rest later. I’m watching 3x more with the Watch Instantly model than I did off the DVD model.<\/p>\n

While I would like an eBook Reader, I don’t find the purchase model compelling. \u00c2\u00a0Take the Netflix<\/a> concepts of:<\/p>\n