[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by der-Matt

What a stupid question.

First - what do you gain from deleting a file from your Ereader except personal gratification, huh? How selfish.
Second - how on earth could anyone think of such stupid activity? It´s a book - it´s a religious artefact, a little bit respect wouldn´t go amiss.
Third - for those who may say, it´s just the ebook, this differs from the paperbook case. In this special case, someone who asks this question, after what happend or what those pathetic fools wanted to do - it is the same.

I dont know what some people in some countrys think who they are, or what is right - but for me thats medieval practices and thoughts.

Woah, take a deep breath and read the thread

I delete books from my reader all the time. Some of them I have repeatedly deleted, then put back, then deleted again. I don't gain any particular satisfaction from it, I just to it in an attempt to better organize the books I want to read or to have at hand. I suppose you could call it selfish, but the reader is mine and nobody shares it with me, so I'm not sure who I am hurting by organizing my books the way I want them. And I certainly am not going to treat a religious book in a different way.

I am also not going to go and find a religious-minded person and tell them "Hey look what I'm doing with your precious book, I'm deleting it from my reader, what do you think about that?" THAT would be hurtful and stupid. But just because somebody thinks this book is special doesn't mean I'm not free to make space on my reader, or delete it if I found a better version, or just simply if I decide I no longer need it.

I also wanted to mention that I make backup copies of my hard drive sometimes. I usually have two backups on an external hard drive, and when I want to make a new one I need to delete the oldest of the previous two to make space. So I regularly delete all my e-book files (among other things).