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I've taken to buying quite a lot of second-hand paper books, lately. I guess this is effectively an indefinite loan, since I don't view them as keepers. There's no secondary market for ebooks, so this is often the only way of getting some books cheap, and there are still a few holdouts that just aren't available in digital form.
I have no problem reading paper books, and am still quite happy to buy really nice editions in paper, as well as comics and coffee-table type books, but like others, space was very much a factor in my original decision to go electronic. I've become a bit more ruthless about offloading old books - when I'm buying used books from charity shops I'm, often also dropping some off - but I'm still a terrible hoarder, and some decisions are hard, even though I'm not much of a re-reader.
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