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Originally Posted by HarryT
Of course, but that's a totally different scenario. You're not creating an additional copy of the book in the process: that's the fundamental difference with ebooks. When you give someone else a copy, you still have it yourself. Two people have copies of the book, where previously only one did.
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You have a point there, but the likelihood that I'm going to re-read the same book I just read is pretty slim. So, in practice, it's not much different.
That said, I'm not really in favor of copying eBooks. I would, however, like to be able give them away to someone else or donate them to the library.
My used NST w/Glowlight that I just bought had about 120 books on it -- some pretty big titles. And, unlike most used eReaders I buy, I was actually interested some of them (weren't all romance, as is normally the case). But, after giving in to temptation to read a couple short novellas by Stephen King ... and one promotional short book for another series (which was probably a giveaway), I made the conscious decision to reset the reader and not do any more "exploring." (I feel bad for reading the ones I did read.)
One more thing and then I'll to stay out of this thread. The main thing I don't like about DRM is that it stigmatizes with untrustworthiness (if that's a word). My opinion is that it is better to go after the pirates than to treat every customer as a potential pirate. It's kind of a "trust issue" to me. But then I'm old enough to remember when loans and deals were concluded with the shaking of hands.