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Originally Posted by calvin-c
I suspect you mean convenient rather than simple. It's really pretty simple to make copies. Just turn on the copier, put the open book on the glass face-down, and press copy. Repeat those simple steps until you're done. That's time-consuming and possibly expensive (depending on the copier) so it's inconvenient, but not difficult or complex. (I'm sure that one or the other of those is the opposite of simple. Isn't it?)
BTW, my fear of losing books stems from a time when I lost several of the books in my TBR pile. Losing books I've already read is one thing but losing them (through no fault of my own either) before I've even read them, now that ticked me off!
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You are right. It is simple, and I have done it in the past (photocopied/scanned).
And yes I can understand a fear of losing books but I don't think losing them is exclusively caused by DRM. For me the cost losing books was quite high in the days I read paper. I have lost books, had them stolen, borrowed and not returned, water damaged and probably other things.
It especially hurt if I lost a library book as rarely a year went by that I didn't lose one or more and the cost of replacing them was close to $20 plus the cost of the book IIRC. And then there were fines which I am sure cost me at least $50+ a year. My fault of course, as I would often just keep a book or two past it's due date and pay the fines. I did (and still do) get a lot of library books so even with the fines it came to less than 1/4 of the cost of buying second hand and trading and less than 10% of the cost of buying new. (I cut back on buying new when 20+ boxes of books were destroyed in a fire
) Now thanks in part to DRM, I don't have to worry about fines etc. Worst case I have to borrow the book again if I haven't finished reading it
Helen