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Yeah female sexuality is more "fluid" than male, typically.

Of course you can hold the ebook "holder", but that's the ebook isn't it? You could erase its content, as you could erase a paper book content?

If you look at a paper book, you can look at its physical components: paper, glue, ink. What's intangible is, for instance, the overall order of the things you interpret as letter, which makes the "story". Another thing that would be intangible is the design, the patterns, how the artist decided to arrange stuff. You could, if you wanted, deconstruct the paper book, and cut each page letter by letter.

Same reasoning can be applied to a hard drive. It has physical material, and you could, physically (it's easier using a program that handles your computer because you'd need a lot of precision and some unique tools to mess with the hard drive region where your book is stored) mess with it and even destroy the material and separate magnetic grain per magnetic grain.
You could have a specially designed hard drive whose size fits perfectly the ebook, right?
Perhaps a difference is that one would want to interpret the binary data as something that you can read on a screen, but you wouldn't call a braille book that you read thanks to an interpreter an intangible thing, right?



About the misunderstanding thing, I'd usually agree with you but I made several attempts of conciliation and being reasonable before in this thread (well, that's what I feel), and on top of it I already had some discussions with him which very quickly veered the same way. I guess I must have some flaws aswell because it takes two to tango, but I have the impression I make extra efforts to aknowledge others' points, and I get nothing in return (I don't even ask him to agree, I just ask to adress the points I focus on, even if it's to disagree with them). Even if it's devoid of insult word, I don't think it's respectful.

And I don't expect much of people in general in the beginning (when they first post in a thread). I'm fairly forgiving and I don't expect people to read all the thread: I know that some people just quickly give their opinion on a subject and that's it. I do it, I don't expect everybody to read all the term and services for petty things they purchases (that cost next to nothing, like ten dollar an ebook?). Of course it's better to do it, no contest, but I don't expect it. But it is different when somebody engage with another in some kind of exchange. Then I expect some attention.