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Old 05-07-2008, 12:16 PM   #3
Argel
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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce View Post
I was in the same boat, and decided:

1. Get what you can get today, realizing full well that things, they are a-changin'.
I'm really glad that works for you but I spend, in most months, between $100 and $200 on books. That's too much to walk away from if they become redundant in a couple of years, as has happened with my eReader files.

Most of all, though, it's the loss of the concept of the library. My shelves groan with books I have bought over four decades and the collection gives me great pleasure. I would be happy to have a digital library as long as it, too, is a lasting possession. We bought one of the very first CD players to come to the UK - 25 years later the disks that ran on it still work, but now on a player designed primarily for DVDs! Their contents are anyway digitally stored and backed up - they are mine for life. Is it asking too much that the same should be true of my books?

I may buy a cheap E-ink device to read free content - still have some Dickens to go - but that's a far cry from the dream of carrying my library in my pocket. But, as I say, I'm glad it works for you.

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