This is an interesting thought. However, the fact that you were able to give up the ownership of your paper books doesn't mean that you owned them any less tha

This is an interesting thought. However, the fact that you were able to give up the ownership of your paper books doesn't mean that you owned them any less than your ebooks. The opposite is true because it's an integral part of ownership that you can give it up or lose it. Ebooks may be more convenient in some situation but that doesn't mean that we have to redefine the meaning of ownership. Further, I suspect that even Amazon would agree that you technically do not own the ebooks that you "bought" from them.