Thread: DRM poll: How do you deal with it.
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Old 10-28-2008, 02:48 PM   #62
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There's no guarantee that you'll still have a paperback, either. What proportion of the paperbacks that you bought 10 years ago do you still have today?

Life is full of uncertainties. When I buy a book, either on paper OR electronically, I certainly don't buy it with the view that it's a "lifetime investment".
That proportion would be very very close to 100%. I only get rid of books that I really didn't like and am thus highly unlikely to read again. (OK -- I also purge the shelves now and then to make room for new books. Likely casualties in this case are books I now own in bits. But I count that as "still have today.")

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