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Multiple reasons why as a keen reader (a whale to the print publishing industry) I don't use ebooks. - DRM: When I pay for a book I want it on any of my device
by JupiterMoon 11y ago
Multiple reasons why as a keen reader (a whale to the print publishing industry) I don't use ebooks.
- DRM: When I pay for a book I want it on any of my devices my whole life and I don't want to have to strip some crappy DRM first.
- price: I can't justify how much more ebooks cost.
- battery life: I get bored having to keep my existing devices charged I don't need another one to keep charged.
- First sale: one has the right to lend physical books to friends and family, to me this social aspect is part of the reading experience.
- Tracking: I like that I can buy a book for cash and no one counts how many pages I read and when I read it. Books are partly about intellectual freedom and tracking is the enemy of intellectual freedom.
- Difficult to keep my place: For technical books I can look stuff up in books I know based upon rough location very quickly. E-reader devicies (in my opinion) need more skeumorphism.