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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
...The lack of resalability is another reason eBooks are less value than paper books.
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Once again: less value
to you. I've never resold a book in my life. The ability to resell one is of no value to me whatsoever. Nor is lendability. I'm a weirdo. None of my reading friends are interested in the things I read.
Look: I've no problem with people placing less value on ebooks
themselves. I think I've been pretty clear about that. My problem is with people who want to claim/believe their personal preference is some sort of universal truism. To me, and many others, an ebook holds
more value than its pbook counterpart. Put your money where you find value. And I don't mean making a binary choice. Buy an ebook one time, then buy a pbook the next. Then borrow one from the library or a friend after that. Just stop trying to pretend there's some sort of "natural" pricing/owning practice (RE ebook/pbook) with which everyone universally agrees.
I'm not alone, and you're not alone. Which means that ebooks are not
inherently worth less than pbooks. It means that different people value different things differently.