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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Because you said the following:
"With the exception of keeping it" matters a great deal; it's not the same thing. If you rent something, you pay for it forever but never own it. If you buy it, you don't have to pay for it again; it's yours. Yes, you have a photographic memory and you can recall and re-read any book you've read, but most of us don't, and we need that actual book around to read it again. So for us, renting is not the same thing as buying it, because "with the exception of keeping it" is a very big exception indeed.
Think about cars: you can buy a car, and keep that car until the wheels fall off. Or you can rent (lease) a car, and at the end, you've paid all that money but you don't have a car. Plus, of course, if you buy the car, it belongs to you and you can drive it for as many miles per year as you want, carry a goat in the back if you really feel you have to, and so on; if you lease it, it belongs to the lessor and you're limited in what you can actually do with it. This might not matter if you just take the kids to soccer practice, but if you have a 100-mile commute, or a need to haul a goat, that might present problems. Renting is not buying, and not comparable to buying.
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I was speaking specifically about renting ebooks. I thought that was assumed, since the thread is about renting ebooks.