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Still waiting for my iliad so what do I know. If I had a choice between DRM and non DRM I would choose the latter. If a book I wanted to read was only for sale as DRM I would buy it anyway. Selling second hand books? In South Africa you would have to get a table, find a flea market and go sit in the sun all day and sell them yourself. Second hand book stores will give you a credit against another old book but you would never get a cent out of them and the credit is barely worth the trouble. If the book is not worth the effort of storing I will find an adult literacy program and give the books away. I also use some as props when shooting furniture setups (I am a photographer).
Convenience is a major issue for me in the decision to buy an ereader, I expect to pay for that somewhere along the line. !2 years ago I rode a bicycle from Israel to South Africa. In Nairobi I bought a copy of Moby Dick. Love that book. As weight is at a premium when cycling and I had to carry everything on my bike I would tear off the pages as I read them and use them for lighting the evening fire and so on. It was great, I always knew what page I was on and the book got lighter and lighter. When I finished the book it was really finished. It was a great way to read a book that I had no space for. I supose that was a manual self imposed DRM or something.
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