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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
You're probably right. But not for the reason you might think. I prefer reading ebooks. But above all else, I prefer reading. So in the unlikely event that ebooks ever became unavailable, I'd revert to buying/borrowing physical (or audio if necessary) books. They worked quite well for me the first thirty-five or so years of my life. In the long run, I'm all about the message, not the envelope it arrives in.
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Of course, but the same reasoning applies there. Only a few of my favorite books are available locally (even in paper) and I might not able to buy them from elsewhere in the future (for example, you could not order anything from foreign countries during the Soviet times - iron curtain and all that). Even if buying foreign paper books is still possible in the future, it would be pretty expensive, what with the shipping costs and all. I might not have enough money to do it.
Of course this is an utterly pessimistic view and such a situation probably will never come to pass, but it
has happened in the past, so I like to be prepared.
What can I say, I'm a pessimist and a hoarder.
