>An e-book is only good until either the file gets corrupted, or until the new edition of your reader doesn't read the old file format.
Or until the publisher decides to take away the book you "bought" (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html), or until the publisher's distributor's webserviceprovider's IT-company's DRM server goes offline because someone forgot to pay someone else, or...
Besides, ebooks don't smell like old books. I *like* reading my granddad's old engineering texts. There are funny notes in Danish in the margins.
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Or until the publisher decides to take away the book you "bought" (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html), or until the publisher's distributor's webserviceprovider's IT-company's DRM server goes offline because someone forgot to pay someone else, or...
Besides, ebooks don't smell like old books. I *like* reading my granddad's old engineering texts. There are funny notes in Danish in the margins.