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Originally Posted by xg4bx
for better or worse, thats my thought process. lines of code aren't real to me. a book i can hold and feel and literally see the process that went into its manufacture is real. the kindle itself is the only thing thats "real" to me in the ebook experience. having a physical item in hand implies ownership to me, not something that only resides on a hard drive that i can only see when i will it into existence.
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I would say the opposite. The physical properties of books seem less like something I own than a burden I once had to bear to get the content, bearing with them a number of impassable limitations on my use. I feel much more in control of media that is more or less always ready-to-hand, and can be backed up and indexed easily. An attachment to the objects and the process of acquiring and using them is understandable, but for me the benefits of the e-book experience have thoroughly displaced any such sentiment.