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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
What more do you get?
When I read a book, chances are I'll never read it again. So bought ebooks have a decided advantage, because they won't clutter your house like bought paper books would.
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Yes, that's an advantage of buying an ebook over buying a paper book, but it means there's even less difference between borrowing and buying an ebook. (In fact, I was already kind of counting that. I don't really re-read much either. Buying an ebook is more of a rental, for me. So borrowing an ebook from the library is exactly the same, only free.)
I listed the advantages of buying a paper book in a previous message: you get the physical object, usually in better condition (than a library book), that you can display, lend and resell. Those might not be important to you, and aren't all that important to me, but I think they are important to enough people that libraries didn't wipe out book sellers.