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I'll pay EXTRA for a printed book just for the utter freedom owning it gives me. I can do anything I want except copy it, or plagiarism... but the book is mine to scribble in the inside flap,
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I can take notes with my K3. There is no flap to scribble on. That is a factor of it not being a physical thing made of paper, not a factor that inherently requires 'ownership.' If you 'owned' the ebook, there would still be no flap to scribble in.
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loan, resell, bookcross, donate to shelters
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most ebooks can be loaned, and a change to the license terms could eventually facilitate the rest. This again does not hinge on calling it 'ownership.' Just more licensed rights.
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Everyone in my household can read the SAME copy
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Same with ebooks. And unlike with pbooks, everyone in my household can read a separate copy simultaneously with no extra cost. Again , no inherent advantage to 'ownership.'
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and then I can loan it to my neighbours.
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Can often be done with ebooks as well, and again, more favorable license terms could make lending even easier than with a pbook.. Certainly can be done by loaning them the reader in any case. AGAIN nothing to do with ownership.
What you seem to like about pbooks is not owning them, it is partially the properties of a physical paper object (scribbling), and partially the current rules (reselling), and the rules can be changed.
Or they might get changed, if people would get behind the effort rather than getting distracted by the pointless "own/license" distinction.
Maybe it is, as you said, a placebo.
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Way more bang for my buck than the privilege of sticking it on some gadget that will likely be obsolete in 10 years.
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True enough. If you want to have reading material after The Fall, it had better be on some quality stock. Maybe papyrus.
ApK