Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirtel
No, I would not buy them. Not even Kindle books I could read on my Kindles. I would not have switched to e-books at all if Calibre and Alf did not exist. It's not idealism, I just don't want to pay money for things I don't own and can't do whatever I want with. I like to re-read, so that's a factor too.
|
But you can't "do whatever you want" with any book, paper books included. You own the paper and ink when you buy a paper book, but you have an
extremely restricted set of rights when it comes to what you can do with the contents of the book. The same is true with ebooks, only there there's no physical medium to "own", of course, so all you're left with are the right granted by the rights-holder, just as with a paper book.