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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Probably the same amount of people who go ballistic if they have to buy a paper book again if it is lost, damaged, stolen etc.
In fact I think far more paper books have been lost, damaged or stolen than the number of ebooks that have become inaccessible in any given timeframe.
Helen
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I think it comes down to why a paper book is no longer accessible. It almost always comes down to the owner being at fault. Even books whose pages yellow or fall out can still be read. However, if you weren't allowed to take your books with you when you moved residence, or had to destroy them when you didn't want to keep them anymore or died, then people would be upset over it, since these would be losses externally forced on people. Losing access to an ebook because of DRM is outrageous in the same way.