I personally prefer physical books because I really fully own them. I love the Kindle experience, and if I could buy books in a DRM-free format that guaranteed

I personally prefer physical books because I really fully own them. I love the Kindle experience, and if I could buy books in a DRM-free format that guaranteed that I'll be able to read on every device I could want forever, I can loan them out/resell them, etc. I'd do it (and I have--eg. Pragmatic Programmers books). But being locked into whatever devices Amazon decides to support and not having some of the freedom isn't ok with me. There also seems to be no quality control on Kindle books. I'm now pretty much afraid to buy any book that doesn't offer a sample of the first few pages. I almost bought Dante's Inferno on Kindle because it was ~3x cheaper, but then I downloaded the sample. The print version of this book has the Italian on the left side pages and the English on the right side. They seem to have just run that version of it through some Kindle-ifier, meaning that there was one print-page worth of Italian, followed by one print-page worth of English, repeating. Just an awful experience.