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Old 06-25-2009, 04:53 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by Lbooker View Post
What matters is that reading the geniuses of centuries past is still free.
If reading the mediocre writers of today becomes more expensive and cumbersome, people will turn to past geniuses more and more, they will become brighter instead of drowning in mediocrity, and they will save money.
Here is what I tell Mobi and Adobe: make my day!
Schopenhauer, the great educator, agrees with me:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Authorship
I personally find a lot of those old authors hard to read. Either because of their use of old language or old language structures.

But I'll just keep on buying my books in mobipocket and simply remove the DRM.
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