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Ah, but a Kindle book doesn't require shelf space or storage. It's not a lump of matter you have ship when moving. You can take a pile when traveling without di
by oddthink 16y ago
Ah, but a Kindle book doesn't require shelf space or storage. It's not a lump of matter you have ship when moving. You can take a pile when traveling without dislocating a shoulder. Those benefits are real; for me, storage cost overwhelms the actual price of a book very quickly, at which point the DRM is a non-issue.
Of course, I'd prefer unencumbered PDF or Mobi, but a with-DRM e-book beats a physical book for me. Part of this is that I'm an urban apartment-dweller with limited shelf space. My book-buying is limited, not by the price of the book, but by not wanting to have to deal with the object.
- commieneko 16y agoSure if you are talking about a few dozen books. But over the years I have collected, shall we say _dozens_ of books that are keepers. To have them suddenly, without warning evaporate for no good reason is simply an untenable situation. Especially since, as digital files they should be disaster proof, unlike several boxes I lost a while back due to water damage. But even more to the point. Books, the written word in general are important. Very important. Do we really want to encourage the development of a system that effectively puts a "kill switch" on knowledge?