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Originally Posted by 6charlong
I have to disagree with your premise. You see, this makes the fifth time I've bought LOTR in the past 40 some years. Someone borrowed the first set and didn't return it. The second set got wet and torn. The Fellowship volume from the third set "disappeared." The fourth set is probably somewhere but I still want it on my reader enough to buy a fifth set.
Even pbooks are transitory. Permanence is only an illusion.
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The way I see it is, if a ebook is DRMed and can't be removed I generally stuck reading it on a certain device. If a company decides to discontinue selling that device then I can be possibly stuck with a whole bunch of ebooks that can't be read. If my reader breaks or it no longer holds a charge and I can't find a replacement battery, etc.
However, if you lose or destroy one of your pbooks, that doesn't mean you loose your entire book collection. I think that's the point.
My opinion anyways.