But nothing, absolutely nothing replaces the feel of owning a whole piece of complete knowledge in your own possession.
Besides which, books smell nice, look pretty, can be read in any position, you can make your own notes in the margins, are infinitely portable and can last for a lifetime. They're basically the perfect technology.
Heh, true. Nobody's managed to obsolete them yet, after a couple of thousand years. A little less if you only count from the time of Gutenberg. And nobody's figured out how to ruin them with DRM yet, either.
Although I guess that should read ARM (Analog Rights Management)....
At least until then, it's one place where fair-use rights undeniably apply: No one has yet been sued for lending a book to a friend... Notice I said "yet" again.... :-)
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