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<blockquote data-quote="Tectuktitlay" data-source="post: 7699263" data-attributes="member: 82812"><p>Umm, yeah. Every single digital book I own is mine, free and clear. The gaming ones are, yes, almost entirely PDFs. Sure. There are programs to convert them. </p><p></p><p>But...I'm not sure why you expect a company to make their products in every digital format. Do you also expect them to print every book in hardback, softback, spiral bound, 3-ring binder pages, landscape and portrait format of all of the above, black and white versions of all of the above, and in note card format? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>But without exception, every single solitary digital book I own is mine. They are all stored on multiple computers, backed up on a cloud likely to continue to exist for a very, very long time (Google), and backed up on a removable solid state drive. Just like my important photographs, videos, etc. They're not going anywhere. It is very likely I will have them until I die, or until civilization collapses, whichever comes first. </p><p></p><p>Do you expect companies to replace your paper copy of a book if you lose it, or it gets damaged, too? I mean, it kind of is your responsibility to make sure you have back-up copies of all your digital books, which is very much akin to making sure you don't leave your paper book outside in the rain, accidentally leave it at a friends house and never figure out who it was, etc. And if something awful happens, like all my belongings are burned up in a housefire? I'll actually still have all my books, photos, videos, and other important documents. So, so, so worth the annual fee, for me, to have a large cloud storage capacity. </p><p></p><p>I do agree with you that companies need to avoid any digital books that require a proprietary reader, DRM, or worst of all going through a specific website to look at the product, or require you to register and get updates or you can't actually read your book. I get they don't want pirating, but frankly that will a) never stop, b) studies show pirating actually spend more money on average than non-pirates, which is itself utterly fascinating, and c) pirates actually pirate <em><strong>physical books</strong></em> into a PDF or ePub if a company refuses to make a digital version anyhow. So they're not bloody well stopping <strong><em>anything</em></strong> by not selling digital books, or by selling digital books with draconian DRM standards. Once I buy a damned digital book, it's mine and I'll do with it as I please. </p><p></p><p>And the thing is...as I said...every digital book I own, is mine. I don't own a single book that isn't straight-up mine, and safely backed up in multiple places. </p><p></p><p>Really, it kinda seems like you're holding digital books to a dramatically different standard than physical books. </p><p></p><p>Oh, and most of my digital books? I can actually make a copy to highlight and doodle notes into, make bookmarks, etc. Having a touchscreen tablet-laptop is pretty freaking awesome. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /></p><p></p><p>Physical books have their place. I like them just fine. Have owned more in my life than I can count, really. But moving to digital? Making sure each time I get a new book it's immediately copied to my PC, my laptop, and onto the cloud? Really fast, really easy, and my books are so much safer than my physical books ever were. It is extraordinarily unlikely I will ever lose them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tectuktitlay, post: 7699263, member: 82812"] Umm, yeah. Every single digital book I own is mine, free and clear. The gaming ones are, yes, almost entirely PDFs. Sure. There are programs to convert them. But...I'm not sure why you expect a company to make their products in every digital format. Do you also expect them to print every book in hardback, softback, spiral bound, 3-ring binder pages, landscape and portrait format of all of the above, black and white versions of all of the above, and in note card format? :p But without exception, every single solitary digital book I own is mine. They are all stored on multiple computers, backed up on a cloud likely to continue to exist for a very, very long time (Google), and backed up on a removable solid state drive. Just like my important photographs, videos, etc. They're not going anywhere. It is very likely I will have them until I die, or until civilization collapses, whichever comes first. Do you expect companies to replace your paper copy of a book if you lose it, or it gets damaged, too? I mean, it kind of is your responsibility to make sure you have back-up copies of all your digital books, which is very much akin to making sure you don't leave your paper book outside in the rain, accidentally leave it at a friends house and never figure out who it was, etc. And if something awful happens, like all my belongings are burned up in a housefire? I'll actually still have all my books, photos, videos, and other important documents. So, so, so worth the annual fee, for me, to have a large cloud storage capacity. I do agree with you that companies need to avoid any digital books that require a proprietary reader, DRM, or worst of all going through a specific website to look at the product, or require you to register and get updates or you can't actually read your book. I get they don't want pirating, but frankly that will a) never stop, b) studies show pirating actually spend more money on average than non-pirates, which is itself utterly fascinating, and c) pirates actually pirate [I][B]physical books[/B][/I] into a PDF or ePub if a company refuses to make a digital version anyhow. So they're not bloody well stopping [B][I]anything[/I][/B] by not selling digital books, or by selling digital books with draconian DRM standards. Once I buy a damned digital book, it's mine and I'll do with it as I please. And the thing is...as I said...every digital book I own, is mine. I don't own a single book that isn't straight-up mine, and safely backed up in multiple places. Really, it kinda seems like you're holding digital books to a dramatically different standard than physical books. Oh, and most of my digital books? I can actually make a copy to highlight and doodle notes into, make bookmarks, etc. Having a touchscreen tablet-laptop is pretty freaking awesome. :cool: Physical books have their place. I like them just fine. Have owned more in my life than I can count, really. But moving to digital? Making sure each time I get a new book it's immediately copied to my PC, my laptop, and onto the cloud? Really fast, really easy, and my books are so much safer than my physical books ever were. It is extraordinarily unlikely I will ever lose them. [/QUOTE]
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