Posted by alexandra_k on August 23, 2013, at 20:48:04
In reply to Re: print vs e reading, posted by Partlycloudy on August 23, 2013, at 19:51:24
> I have an utterly stupid rule that I'll only download books in the public domain, for available otherwise for free.
I don't think it is a stupid rule. I used to have that rule for myself. And most of my friends have that rule, too. I have broken it rather a lot this year and last year. Textbooks. Then music. Then TV / Movies. I do feel badly about it. Like how I used to feel badly about smoking, but continued to do it anyway.
I tell myself that they aren't losing out on any money from me - because I simply don't have any money at present. I used to spend around $1,000 per year on textbooks... (We can borrow that amount each year on our student loans). Other students would buy cars or stereos or... And I'd buy textbooks. I've spent hundreds of dollars shipping my books around different countries / different parts of the country with me. When I quit the course here I momentarily considered moving to the South Island. So I... Donated all my books to the Students Union. It was a bit rude... Libraries don't want books anymore... Many of them are available online... I couldn't bear to throw them out, though. I still can't believe that I did that. Thousands and thousands of dollars worth of books... All my worldly goods aside from my computer... But there it is.
Anyway... PDF's of textbooks for free. When I'm not a student here so can't take books out of the library. Can't even get interloans delivered here. But it was a slippery slope from there to music to tv series to movies to be sure... I'm not proud.
> And I am terribly attached to my small collection of author signed books. I can't see that changing.Yeah. I can see that.
Do you know of Richard Scary? I had a lot of his books as a kid. I can't imagine them translating to devices...
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