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Originally Posted by haertig
That's one way to do it. And for you, it doesn't make sense to backup things. Others do things differently, and for them backing up makes sense. There are pluses and minuses to each approach.
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Absolutely.
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Originally Posted by haertig
You don't understand people's reasoning for buying books ahead of time, and the buy-ahead group (which includes me) doesn't understand your last minute J.I.T. purchase reasoning. This is all fine since we should do things for our own benefit, not for the approval of others. Buy ahead or not is a small difference in the grand scheme of things.
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Except for one tiny exception, I agree. I understand people's reasoning for buying ahead of time perfectly well. I used to BE the person that did the same. There are plenty of reasons why buying physical books ahead of time was an absolute necessity for me. It's just that those reasons went away (for me) with the availability of digital books: stores no father away than the tips of my fingers, and stores that never close. When I finished a physical book, there was a very real possibility that I might not have anything new to read until after a trip to the book store (or my next order of books arrived).
So yes. I agree wholeheartedly that we should do things for our own benefit, and not for the approval of others. Which is what I do. I just like to crawl out of the woodwork every now and then, and wave my hand, when conversations turn a bit one-sided about these things. I have no interest in changing minds or garnering approval about my practices. I just like to keep reminding people that there's no default practice here. Many seem to forget that in the bit of an echo-chamber we have around here about DRM and ebook collection curation.