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ecib  ·  3977 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In Praise of (Offline) Slow Reading - NYTimes.com

Love project Gutenberg :)

You mentioned you read a lot of books secondhand. That's an avenue that e-books come up far short. Where you could pick up an analog book for 5 or 10 percent of the retail price used, the same cannot be said of the digital equivalent. Unless the book you want is in the public domain, e-books are all sorts of terrible as far as DRM and passing them on.

Don't get me wrong, -I do love e-books though. I especially enjoy reading any book that often references geographic locations or words I'm not familiar with. Having Google Earth and a dictionary at my fingertips right there is invaluable.