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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
...Say you meet a friend while holding your Kindle/Nook/Sony and are asked what you are reading. "Ohh, it is this great book by Jeffrey Carver", you say. "Yeah, can I borrow it", you are asked. Being a friendly person you agree and out comes the laptop and USB cable. Now you can't actually lend the book to the recipient, you can only giver her a copy of it. A few weeks later you talk to someone else about the book and are again asked about borrowing a copy, and having entered middle-age your short term memory isn't what it used to be, you simply forget that you have already "lent" it someone else. Hence, another copy is on the run. No malicious intent, just a V6 memory...
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Actually, you could lend the e-book without giving out a copy. Just give them your actual file. Of course, you run the same risk doing so that you would if you loaned out a p-book; you may never see it again. Also, the person you lent it to could always make a copy for themselves.
I made up mind several years ago after losing a couple of loaned books, including an autographed copy, to never loan them out again. And since e-books can be copied once out of my control, that is just more incentive to never loan them out either.
Btw, I'm long past the middle age, short term memory!
