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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I've never quite understood the buy-it-once-and-keep-it-forever mindset when it cones to books. Even back when I used to re-read a lot more than I do now, I didn't mind buying new copies of favorite books. I wore many of them out; lost others; loaned them out and never got them back; bought extra copies to give as gifts; bought the movie tie-in editions--what-have-you.
I feel the same way about ebooks. If, in five or six (or ten) years, an ebook I want to re-read is unavailable (lost, DRM-stranded because a book store went bust--whatever), I won't mind giving a little more money to an author I like to replace it (or I'll get it from a library).
The only reason I remove DRM these days is if the formatting is so atrocious that I need to fix it to read it comfortably (rare).
I value the experience of reading a great book way more than what they're charging for new ones (e or p). *shrug*
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Well, there are many reasons. Some people are just hoarders by nature (I'm certainly one of these). Not all people have enough disposable income to buy their favorite books or movies several times over (I've had some pretty hard times in my life too). Last but not least, I personally live in a small country where the majority of digital goods were not legally available until quite recently, and it's far from impossible such a situation might occur again in the future, e.g. I might not be able to buy any e-books at all someday. That's something people in the big Western countries, especially the U.S., probably never have to fear.