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Originally Posted by bbqncigars
I appreciate the flexibility the digital world allows. As long as my stuff lasts as long as I do, I'm good.
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I understand that, by nature, digital works can last forever since perfect copies can be made at virtually no cost (except when DRMs come into play, of course), but there are some aspects of paper books that are clearly lost with ereaders: sharing and transmission.
I mean, when I was a teenager I got into some books that were my parents', well, because they were just lying there, and I was bored (including some erotica - a revelation at the time). Paper books are something you have lying around, and that means you can naturally borrow them, you can inherit them... Basically, paper books, when treated well, naturally last longer than people, and that's sometimes a good thing.