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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I agree it is quite wasteful. Which is why I was surprised to hear a "solution" that involved buying the digital version, which is just as wastefully "thrown away" in the sense that only the original purchaser can read it, and that person has the intent never to read it again. 
If I didn't reread books, I would make sure to use a format that allowed me to pass them on. |
Does not compute for me. What exactly are you wasting that is not wasted on any single use purchase? Food, Kleenex, utilities etc., you only get to use once, you can't even re-eat. And of the things that can be passed on, with or without reusing, how many are? Not talking about you here, but a lot of people wear an item of clothing once and it sits in the closet, till the closet bulges and into the trash.
I buy a book because I want to read it. No other reason. Lending it, donating it or other ways passing it on only became a factor when it was taking up space I needed. I never went into a store, looked at a book, and said to myself, bet I could lend, sell, trade that book pretty easily.
I do lend my reader(s) to people very occasionally so they can legally read the book, but this is because I am enthusiastic about ebooks and am lending it to them for the experience, not for getting added value from the book. My added value is the convenience of ebooks over paper.
Helen