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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Again, I can physically hold that braille book since I am assuming you cannot put braille on a computer.
Now as to the last part of your post: no $1.99 or $10 ebook is not much if you only buy one.
The catch is most users do not buy just one ebook from a big vendor.
As to Amazon, in both physical and digital stuff, I spent way more than $10 last year.
So yes, I should read the T&C because I do use Amazon. Heck just in the last month, I have spent more than $10.
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You can put any "bit" (memory part) to a state of "0" or "1" in your computer.
You can put in any "letter space" on a paper page some braille point in special arrangement.
A writer will make a story, which is intangible, but physically it will be put letter by letter on some paper sheet using ink. And all the paper pages will be put together using some thick cover and some glue. It could also be put physically on some magnetic grains on one single "page": a hard drive. You can hold the book by its cover, or by its pages, (beware), you can hold the ebook by its holder or you can touch the magnetic plate if you want (beware).
I don't really understand what you mean by putting braille on a computer. You mean a screen? Yes it would be possible to build a braille screen. No the data would not be stored in the hard drive in the braille alphabet (it's binary data, binary alphabet if you will).
Anyway, yeah if you buy a lot from one publisher, you'd want to read their T&C. But you could also buy from multiple publishers (T&C can differ). But their T&C could change with time aswell, and on top of it some T&C can be book-specific (some book can be free of right for instance). That can potentially be a lot of T&C, and perhaps you should check the T&C everytime you buy a book whether or not the T&C has changed (in the Amazon example given, you see the date it has been last updated).
Lastly, even if you read the T&C, you must evaluate what's valid in your country (some parts of a T&C can be against local legislation), and/or what you care about. For instance I've recently bought a book for my mother from Amazon because she asked me to as she had a coupon (she's a computer illiterate). I knew I could unDRM the Amazon book, convert it in epub and put it in her Kobo (I bought her one as it's the brand I bought for myself aswell). I did it. It's against their T&C. She wasn't even aware of the steps I took, she probably thought it was possible as is. I didn't bother to explain.