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Where but with an e reader could one have a long TBR list and KNOW it would be available when needed. Libraries notoriously lend out the the one we want to read now. To bring the elitist argument down to personal experience.....ebooks make reading possible for many who have no access to print books. I worked in rural China and in Saudi Arabia and mobile phones (prolific in both countries) offered more than a call.....they opened up vistas for people who otherwise were confined, books, reading ....the world was suddenly available. A Sudanese friend tells the same of his village in North Africa. Yes there are still many that have no access, but more now than ever before, do. The written word is being read by more people in more places more often than ever before imho. Maybe not whole books in many cases.....but it's a start.
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