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Thank god I store all my learning material (among other things) offline, so that my education doesn't have to depend on firefighters from the other side of the

• blub 7y ago
  A wise choice, but the economics are a bit different from cloud software, like Adobe: the costs for books and training videos can add up to several thousands of € per year and most of that knowledge will become obsolete in a couple of years. Many tech books should probably be rented, while the classics and very good ones should indeed be bought.
  • pritambaral 7y ago
    That's an argument for _allowing books to be rented_, but not an argument for _disallowing books from being bought or downloaded_. Besides, your argument is already served by libraries. The problem in this case is the publisher wants to be _the library_.