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Originally Posted by crossi
That seems very strange to me. Up until I got an ereader I'd never lived without multiple overflowing bookcases and boxes of books stacked in corners and under beds. From threads here it seems that that is a common reason why people got ereaders. Unless you reread them there is no point in keeping a read book instead of just tossing it afterwards. If people don't reread what's the point of having your own library as so many here have said they have? I have books I've been rereading since grade school like Burnett's "A Little Princess" and "The Secret Garden". In fact any book that I don't want to reread I consider a wasted purchase. Before my ereader I had 4 bookcases and 29 boxes of "keepers" and I only had that few because I didn't have room for more and had to cull my less favorites.
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Yeah, me too--I like to own books and I reread them, and even if I never actually reread them, I like to know I can if I want to. And I imagine the majority of the folks
here have a similar mindset. But I think that in the general population, we're a tiny minority. I think most people just buy a handful of books every year and never care about going back to them, so losing access because of DRM isn't much of an issue for them.