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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
With all due respect........if my house burns down, my paper books are gone forever.
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IMO the issue isn't 'losing my books' but having someone 'take them away from me'. (And I consider denying me access to them the same as taking them away.)
Closest analogy I can think of is buying a swimming pool or something-once you buy it, it becomes part of your house & if you move then you've got to buy another one. Somehow it just doesn't work for me to equate a book with a swimming pool...
Actually, more in line with someone 'taking them away' would be a renter being evicted because his landlord failed to make his mortgage payments. Like I said, it's difficult to analogize-I can't think of anything, in the 'real' world, that's treated this way.