I much prefer not owning stuff. In the past I had to haul books around and find places to keep them. Make sure they were in order and try and remember what was read, what wasn't and what had been lent out to who.
Next I purchased books and side loaded them. I had to manage content, format and so on. Migrate to different types of media as tech evolved.
It was the same for records then then CDs and MP3 downloads.
Now Amazon takes care of my books and Apple my music. What ever I want to listen to or read is available. If the world goes belly up on me and all civilization fails I will have bigger things to worry about than my book collection so let's not bring that one up.
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