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Originally Posted by HarryT
[...] I agree that the ability to resell digital content would be desirable, but the practicalities of the situation make it difficult to do.
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What we need is an app (or a form of DRM) that scrunches the corners of the pages, fades the cover and inside pages to a murky yellow background, and adds brown acid stains. On random books it should do a lot of underlining, maybe delete a page or two or put tears on the cover. The occasional book should have chocolate and coffees stains added, and every now then the remains of something unrecognisable but potentially horrible. The more times the book changes hands the more severe the damage would get. As the book got older you would have to shake the e-reader to make all the pages sit right, and paging turning would get harder to do, with some pages sticking together. ... And then a visit to a second-hand ebook store could be just like the old days.
Of course such an app might unfairly penalise true book lovers that take good care of their books ... so maybe it could use the accelerometer and other features of e-reading devices to judge whether you are a person that takes care of your books or not, and alter it's foxing algorithm accordingly.
I wonder if I should patent the idea.
