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Originally Posted by rhadin
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.
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But value is *always* subjective. For many people, the ability to avoid clutter is quite valuable, and the ability to resell or lend a book is not very important at all. (Or the ability to lend a book via Kindle to a relative 250 miles away is more important than the ability to lend a book to someone closer). E-books are more valuable to a lot of people. Even people who complain about e-book prices being higher that pbook prices.
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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.
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