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Originally Posted by Catlady
It clutters the marketplace and makes it harder to find decent books. It lowers the prestige of the writing profession--significantly. It devalues books. It adds to the already vast quantities of trash out there.
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Devaluation of books is complete with the advent of ebooks. Books are now reduced to text within a computer file, instead of being works of art.
I know, I've said that I prefer to read from an e-reader now, so I'm "helping" to speed along this process, to a certain degree.
Still, I'm contemplating to give away / sell all my paperbacks that have been replaced by ebooks, and use the space to build an "epic bookcase": it'll only contain hardcover versions of books I deem worthy to have as a *book* instead of being only in a file.
The only problem is that I'll probably read the book on my e-reader, buy it afterward as a hardcover and then shelve it into the bookcase... possibly to never be read.