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Originally Posted by darryl
You are of course entitled to your opinion. I have a very different one. I have no intention of buying any more print books. I like reading e-books, and am far more comfortable with an e-book than with a print book, since I have the option to change fonts and their attributes as my eyes age. I am paying for a book whether it be e-book or print book. I do re-read some books, and have no intention of paying again to do so. Storage of ebooks is easy and dirt cheap, even for multiple backups. I have no intention of losing all my e-books during my lifetime. I regard my e-book library as no more likely to be lost than a print book one. Probably less so. And far more accessible. Maintaining an e-book library in Calibre involves very little time or money, and is no worry.
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Yes, exactly. I should also mention that the hassle of maintaining an ebook library is nothing vs the hassle of maintaining a paper book library if one has to move or renovate. And in the case of fire you
will lose all your paper books, but I can download all my ebooks again from Dropbox (if Dropbox should go out of business, I'll just use another cloud service). Of course I also keep local backups.