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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4780098" data-attributes="member: 2067">It gums up my brainworks when someone thinks that a PDF of a book is the same thing as the book itself.In the book world especially, having a copy of Arcane Power and downloading images of pages of Arcane Power are very distinct, separate, and discrete experiences. About the only thing they have in common is the content. While not an insignificant part of the thing, the content is surely not the whole of the thing. People who want the Arcane Power book still need to go out and buy it. People who want the Arcane Power PDF can only pirate it. People who want both have a few work-arounds they can do, or they can do both. The content alone isn't the entire thing of a book (which is part of why Kindle, despite their attempts, will never be the next iPod -- books are a far different and less easily portable medium than music, and it is hard to improve on the cost/benefit format of the paperback).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 4780098, member: 2067"] It gums up my brainworks when someone thinks that a PDF of a book is the same thing as the book itself. In the book world especially, having a copy of [I]Arcane Power[/I] and downloading images of pages of [I]Arcane Power[/I] are very distinct, separate, and discrete experiences. About the only thing they have in common is the content. While not an insignificant part of the thing, the content is surely not the [I]whole[/I] of the thing. People who want the Arcane Power book still need to go out and buy it. People who want the Arcane Power PDF can only pirate it. People who want both have a few work-arounds they can do, or they can do both. The content alone isn't the entire thing of a book (which is part of why Kindle, despite their attempts, will never be the next iPod -- books are a far different and less easily portable medium than music, and it is hard to improve on the cost/benefit format of the paperback). [/QUOTE]

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