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Originally Posted by HarryT
What proportion of your books do you read more than once? With me, the figure is very low. I have a few old favourites, that I read over and over, but the overwhelming majority of books I'll never read again.
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Well it sure varies. Civilisation, Seven Japanese Tales, my Kafka collection I have had so long and read so many times that these books are held together with ribber bands now. On the other hand I doubt I will ever again look at any of the Stieg Larsson books. The thing is it is not possible to tell what books will be in the once over category before reading them.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
This is all pure paranoia, IMHO. Nobody is suggesting, and nor is there the slightest evidence to suggest that anyone is even THINKING of suggesting, that such a restriction be imposed.
The Overdrive library limits are a completely different situation, and cannot sensibly be used to infer that any additional restrictions are on their way for commercially-sold eBooks.
Haven't we got enough things to talk about with "the real world", rather than panicking about imaginary "wrongs"?
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True no evidence out there yet. But it is not so hard to believe that the issue might have been discussed at HC when the new policy regarding Overdrive titles was discussed.
This short article in the latest Time Magazine may be of interest. Time is a sort of news aggregation source so this is probably not fresh news here. The figures for ebook sales versus ebook profits belie any claims that ebooks are not profitable as things stand now.
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