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Originally Posted by ahi
How does this not apply to a paper book? The space it takes up on your bookshelf until you actually read it is hardly added value.
- Ahi
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Ahi - My entire post was intended to show the value of possesing a paper book before the moment you want to read it, in short it takes time and money to actually get the paper copy if you can even find one. Another way to look at it, if you don't have a paper copy on hand when you want to read it what would it cost you in time and money to get it? That is the value of having it in your possesion already. With an ebook that is almost zero time and zero money as I can access almost any ebook nearly instantly from my couch. You could almost say from a practical standpoint I do have every ebook in my library already.
BTW, some people do value having the physical book sitting on their shelf but that is a different matter and something many find lacking from ebooks.