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Meh, wait until they have to move house a couple of times, or their kid wants a piano so they go from a nine foot library bookcase to a couple of Billys from Ik
by panzagl 12y ago
Meh, wait until they have to move house a couple of times, or their kid wants a piano so they go from a nine foot library bookcase to a couple of Billys from Ikea.
Anyone who is worried about not 'owning' their books is more than welcome to accompany me on my biannual trip to the Friends of the Library donation desk. I guess I lose the tax credit on my ebooks, but at least I've gotten to keep them so far.
- colmvp 12y agoI'm glad I'm not the only one. I moved to Kindle a year ago and haven't looked back. For technical and art books, yes I'll still buy the paper version. But for non-fiction, fiction, saved long-form articles, and magazines... I'll take Kindle any day of the week. The ability to bring countless sources of content with me anywhere I go or at my bedside while saving incredible amounts of space in my house is a godsend. I'm a designer, but perfect layout and typography of printed layout is far less important to me than the ease of consuming the content itself.
- panzagl 12y agoAnd it's not like the majority of books people own are that great as physical objects anyway- grab a random hardback from the fifties and compare it to any hardback you're likely to grab at Costco or B&N- the quality isn't even close.