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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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The books I buy are for reference to keep. I move a lot and hate toting boxes of books. I convert books to txt and make inline notes and comments. As a text file these notes and comments are searchable simply by using the system "search" feature on my Mac.
Can you do all that with a hardcopy? Like someone else said... If I want to help others there are plenty of things to do beside giving a hardcopy book that they may not even want in the first place....