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Originally Posted by WillysJeepMan
This is really very simple. But it depends upon not having an emotional attachment to a particular technology, in this case, ebooks.
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Not all attachments to ebooks are emotional. For a lot of people with disabilities, it's ebooks or nothing; pbooks are too heavy or the print is too small for them.
Not that I disagree with the rest of your points, other than "...otherwise, buy the pbook." (I rarely bought pbooks even when I read them--I borrowed a lot, or got hand-me-downs from other people.) But I don't want the discussion to get derailed into "if the ebook as offered doesn't work for you, just get the pbook." That's not quite a "let them eat cake" response, but it's fairly close to "if you can't afford petrol, just ride a bike instead."
That works some situations but it doesn't fix the problems for those people for whom that's not a reasonable option.