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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Depending on the vendor. Or ... you can have one book that vanishes when the vendor decides to un-sell it to you. Or when the authentication servers go down. Or when some pressure group complains too much. Or when you get a new device and your books aren't compatible with it anymore. Or when you've used up all your uses in a couple of decades (that's 6 devices ever, not at once) and you can't read your ebook anymore.
I've worn out very few books. I'm good to my books, even the used ones.
If you buy several books at once, you don't pay shipping or local taxes from Amazon, either. You don't pay shipping at the bookstore down the street. And actually, you are supposed to pay tax on things you buy online ("use tax" instead of sales tax) and some states are trying to force online retailers to collect it; it's only a matter of time.
Actually, no, after reading and responding to his posts for months, I'm entirely too aware that leebase is telling us that we should either pay full price for hardcovers, pay more than that for ebooks, or shut up. We should say "thank you, sir, can I have another?"
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If you have never worn out books then you must either be an extremely neat person or never snack or drink while reading
I think there is little to worry about Amazon's servers going down, but I liberate my books from DRM anyway, though even after that I do adhere to the other general terms of usage. That takes care of all the possible objections I might have with regard to the "disaster scenarios" you mentioned.
Well, I think you are being a little too hard on Leebase, He just tends to choose extreme thread titles to provoke lively discussions.
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And I think you can de-register old devices and register new ones if you have reached the limit with all vendors.