I can’t help but always worry that one day I’ll need paper books. I don’t know what it is, but I feel like I should start collecting paper books instead of every single book I have is on my Kobo. Which do you do? If you get paper books, is there a source that sells cheaper books. Books are kind of pricey where I look.

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Unpopular take and I might get beaten up for it, but if you have already paid for the book and you can’t take it with you because it has DRM, then IMHO, it’s ok to pirate it. You paid for it, it’s yours and they’re taking it away from you because you chose not to use their device.

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That’s basically my attitude. As usual, piracy is a service problem.

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100%. I’d like to support people who work hard on their products, but corporations love to be the unnecessary middleman that enshitifactes things along the way.

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When my grandmother passed, my grandfather took most of her books to her favorite local buy/sell/trade bookstore and got a pile of store credit for my brother and I. It took us over a decade to spend it all, and we probably only had $300 or $400 in that account to start with. But the store sold most books for less than $5. Amazon is out here charging $25 for a 40 year-old book as an ebook, and there’s no equivalent to buy/sell/trade secondhand bookstores in the ebook space.

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I don’t feel super bad about acquiring ebooks if I have a physical copy either. I legitimately own a lot of content, including both a physical hardcover and an audiobook in many cases. If I want use margin notes on thinking fast and slow when I have the other two copies, I’m just going to.

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