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Old 12-13-2008, 02:29 PM   #20
Elfwreck
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
How do you propose to give someone an eBook WITHOUT making a copy of it? The very act of digital data transmission inherently involves a copy being created. Even if you subsequently delete your "original", the other person still has the "copy".
Download the original to a flash drive; loan out the flash drive at will. Which I admit is somewhat ridiculous, but is certainly possible for most ebooks. Depending on the filetype, it may or may not make a copy to read it.
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