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Old 06-30-2019, 08:29 AM   #81
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Originally Posted by Sarmat89 View Post
Cory Doctorow is a clown. If you want to have a personal book, buy it in a store in paper. The cheap licenses to read the text of a book on your computing devices do not entitle you for a life-long ownership.
And if you don't have room to store all your paper books? That was one of the reasons I swapped to eReading.

And, as others have pointed out, eBooks are (often) not cheap!

The moral of this story is not that DRMed eBooks are "cheap", it is that they are inferior, and in fact damaged goods -- 'broken by design'.

Last edited by Hrafn; 07-01-2019 at 11:52 AM. Reason: Forgot to include "DRMed" in final sentence
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