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Originally Posted by Joshua.P
You collect ebooks? I'm sorry but that's a little weird. It's just a computer file that you can make infinite amounts of copies of, and you collect them?
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Well, first of all I collect gadgets.
I've lost track, but I've got about 25 eBook readers for example.
As I occasionally use each (most) of them, I've bought quite a few books 2 or 3 (maybe 4 or 5?) times.
I simply don't want to consider "I want to read books X, Y and Z this week. So I have to take reader ABC with me". I just take the reader I like best at the moment and often buy the books again. So I'm building a collection of books.
And what else I should do with them? Delete them after reading? They're getting more and more over time and so I collect them.
And how are 653 eBooks in my Kindle library not a collection? What else would you call it?
And why is it less weird to collect paper books or DVDs instead of collecting digital data? Is it about the medium or about the content and the fun you have?
And I obviously don't collect for eternity. I've got maybe 600 Microsoft .lit files that I'm not using/reading anymore. Same, in some time, will happen to all media. Happened to 150 Sony PSP games for example, after selling my last PSP go....
And btw: You only can make infinite amounts of copies of illegal downloads. When legally buying, Amazon for example limits the number of active readers most of the times to 4 units. You could make copies on your PC, but you can't use them "infinitely". But I don't care about that. It's not about downloading tens of thousands of books. I've done that, but it's simply no fun. And you never really know what you get.
What can I say? I find shopping extremely entertaining. It's not so much the owning as the buying...
And re. "weird": Personally, for example I find it weird to root for a sports team, just because by coincidence it's from my hometown. Or I find it weird, to juggle my 600 DVDs when I much more conveniently can stream even more titles within my home network...