i still love the physical book - it hurts less when you doze off and the "book" hit your head.
of course they are worried, cos when you have an electronic file, you can "lend" it to 1000 friends at one time... but I don't think they can do much about it. I don't buy the ebook replacing the real thing entirely concept, ebook is just alternative medium. I love that I have the option to read the book straight away and not having to wait at Post Office's mercy. Bookshelves fetish or not, book is not platform-dependent at all, it will always have this edge.
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on 2008-03-24 06:47 pm (UTC)of course they are worried, cos when you have an electronic file, you can "lend" it to 1000 friends at one time... but I don't think they can do much about it. I don't buy the ebook replacing the real thing entirely concept, ebook is just alternative medium. I love that I have the option to read the book straight away and not having to wait at Post Office's mercy. Bookshelves fetish or not, book is not platform-dependent at all, it will always have this edge.