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@balidey Whilst agreeing with you on the tactile front.
With a little messing around you can find most books in a usable format or convert them to one. Project Gutenburg has a great many old and obscure books.
I have spent far more than £100 on bookshelves.
I can lend any ebooks I have and regularly borrow them from other people. I try and remember to delete them after I have done so and don't feel guilty for removing DRM from something I have bought. Calibre is a very useful app!
I am more likely to shout at my kids for dropping, folding, tearing my books, they aren't insured and on the whole are rarer than Kindles are. I don't have a backup of them either.
I think you are getting mixed up with the purpose of ereaders - they are not designed to replace books as items in themselves, it isn't a "there can be only one" deal. Signed copies etc are the ones I have retained through thick and thin as are the signed records and CDs.
Yes, you can make notes and share them with other readers if you would like and read theirs in your turn.
With a little messing around you can find most books in a usable format or convert them to one. Project Gutenburg has a great many old and obscure books.
I have spent far more than £100 on bookshelves.
I can lend any ebooks I have and regularly borrow them from other people. I try and remember to delete them after I have done so and don't feel guilty for removing DRM from something I have bought. Calibre is a very useful app!
I am more likely to shout at my kids for dropping, folding, tearing my books, they aren't insured and on the whole are rarer than Kindles are. I don't have a backup of them either.
I think you are getting mixed up with the purpose of ereaders - they are not designed to replace books as items in themselves, it isn't a "there can be only one" deal. Signed copies etc are the ones I have retained through thick and thin as are the signed records and CDs.
Yes, you can make notes and share them with other readers if you would like and read theirs in your turn.