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Rent is a poor term, instead you purchased a license to the content. Many ppl assume they purchased the content. If it can be modified without your consent,.

• jeremyjh 4y ago
  I’ve bought and read thousands - I don’t often reread them. Maybe a couple dozen I’ve reread in the last 25 years. So the convenience more than makes up for the lack of ownership.
  • kelnos 4y ago
    That's not really relevant to the point being made: you've decided that the trade off is worth it for you, and that's truly fine. But I would wager that most people think that they "own" their Kindle purchases in the same way that they'd own a physical book they'd bought. Some people do read books more than once. There are a few books I enjoy enough that I've read them quite a few times over the past 25 years or so. I've lost, sold, or given away the physical copies of nearly all of them, and have replaced them with ebooks. I would be very upset if those ebooks just disappeared someday. (I don't have to worry, as I've de-DRMed and backed up all the books I've purchased. But I don't expect most Kindle owners to know how to do that, or even know that they need to do that to be safe.)
• Hizonner 4y ago
  Well, I don't know about "own", but I will definitely still possess the ripped and de-DRMed copy that I always make as a matter of course.