On 15/09/2020 13.24, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2020-09-15 00:14:58 Simon Becherer wrote:
Am 14.09.20 um 18:43 schrieb Dave Howorth:
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:35:37 +0200 Simon Becherer <> wrote:
Am 14.09.20 um 18:19 schrieb Peter Suetterlin:
Dave Howorth wrote:
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just a joke, i think you are right (with the energy management). i like paper books, they look good, feel good and smell good. problem is i get out of walls for storage :-(((((((( .... what about re-using if toilet paper is missing ? ;-)) try this with a ebook ;-))
Relying on ebooks is risky for bibliophiles because, as usual, one is only buying a license to read, not the book itself; and if there's no way to download it (which with Linux is often), one is at the mercy of the holder of the book. Look what happened recently when MacroShaft decided to get out of the epublishing business and summarily shut down their ebook servers; people who "bought" books from them suddenly had nothing.
Which is why wary bibliophiles make a backup copy of the epubs without DRM. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)