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Old 04-09-2009, 11:37 PM   #204
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I have to say that personally, I don't care much about keeping my ebooks after I've read them. I know that there are people who find pleasure in rereading books, but I'm always thinking that there's another book that needs its first read. I have reread some books, though, and I believe that I would prefer to have those books in treebook form anyway. So I'd probably rent all my books in ebook format if I could, then purchase the treebook for my keepers.
I'm following up on my own post, and moving off topic, so it might be doubly unkosher, but in rereading my post, I realized that there's an element of having a trophy in keeping a physical copy of a book, at least for me.

I must have a thousand books around the house, and there's no way I'll reread many of them. These are just a fragment of the lifetime library of books I have owned, but there are at least a couple of hundred that I could never bring myself to let go. I can't imagine feeling that way about an ebook collection.
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