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Originally Posted by nekokami
Er... no. I was able to convert many of my LPs to cassette, and then CD format. I only bought CDs where the quality of the music mattered enough to me that the higher fidelity of the CD offered enough extra value to justify the expense. And Apple has made it quite easy to convert CDs to play on the iPod.
In any case, the two aren't really comparable, because, apart from sheet music, there has never been a long-lived portable storage mechanism for music, so people accept limitations as we try to find one. The same is not true for books, which have been around for thousands of years. The "extra features" of ebooks (e.g. low weight/volume, searchability) have not yet provided enough value for people to be willing to accept having to replace them whenever the manufacturers come out with a new device or format. I'm not sure if there is any feature set that would make this a good value proposition. I think a portable format (read: no DRM) will be critical for full market acceptance of ebooks.
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And cheaper reading devices if I may add. No one wants to spend long hours reading chained to a computer.