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Originally Posted by DNSB
With physical books, when you lent your copy of the book to a friend, you could no longer read it until the friend returned the book to you. Now I can lend an ebook to 500 of my closest "friends" and keep a copy for myself. Of course, nothing is stopping those friends from gifting copies to their friends.
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While a lot of my childhood's been lost to time, I
do remember my elementary school teachers handing out photocopies from (20-30 years out of date) textbooks...