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Originally Posted by rabbie
Why are we using ebooks at all when we can generate £2-£3 per book for charity when we have finished with our hard copy books.?? I donate all my books to the British Heart Foundation who then sell them for the above sum. They are the purchased and read by someone who hopefully takes them back so that they can be sold again. You cannot do this with ebooks so therefore we should bin all the ebook readers and get back to print. The fact that a lot of ebooks are the same price or more expensive than the printed copy only makes this argument more vaid
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As you might can tell from the other comments here, your original statement is a little short-sighted.
The problem is, as you said "You cannot do this with ebooks". Your seemingly short-sighted solution to this problem then is to get rid of ebooks. My solution would be to fix the problem - remove the artificial limitation on selling/giving ebooks. If my local library was setup to accept ebook donations they would be well on their way to having one of the largest philosophy/history ebooks libraries around. As it is, my niece will inherit a very nice ebook library with thousands of volumes (I remember when things used to have value and were passed down through the generations. I hope she finds some value in it.)
As for the donation aspect, I personally donated 90% of my pbooks to the local library when I converted to ebooks. I didn't have the room for them anymore, and only kept the classic valuable editions (eg. my leather-bound, 17 volume Arabian Nights.)
BTW, some overdrive capable libraries *are* capable of receiving ebooks bought for them now (search these forums if interested,) so your original point is nearly moot. Unfortunately my local library is not one of them.
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