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Originally Posted by HarryT
Because my house became full of books - double-stacked shelves on every available wall. To buy more books I would have had to buy a larger house. For me personally, eBooks are worth FAR more than paper books, because I can store an essentially unlimited number of them on an external drive the size of a pack of playing cards. Naturally I remove the DRM as soon as I buy a book (and I typically buy 4 or 5 books a week).
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Harry, what you meant to say then is that ebooks are more valuable to you, not that they are more valuable. the "to you" is an important qualifier. I buy a lot of ebooks (currently have more than 500 in my TBR pile) but I only buy in ebook form either a book I'm not interested in keeping once I have read it or a book I have bought the hardcover version of but want the convenience of reading in ebook form (I buy very few for this latter purpose, perhaps 3 or 4 in a year).
To me, although I have the same shelf problem you have, ebooks are significantly less valuable because I have no intent of keeping them once read.