• Libb@piefed.social
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    • public libraries are still there.
    • Book (physical) can still be purchased and fully owned, without any risk of them being remotely edited or deleted and without nay tracking of our reading habits.
    • Walking is still free, without any subscription required.
    • It is still legal to turn off one’s phone.
    • I love my spouse at least as much as I loved her when we first met almost 30 years ago. And, yep, she seems to kinda like me too ;)
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        5 hours ago

        You mean it is worrisome (sorry, English is not my native language)? If so, it’s the intend because I think there is already too many hints pointing out to a (slow?) vanishing of many of those ‘options’.

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          yeah essentially its like. for now. implying they will be gone which is like part of the things I worry about for the future.

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            It’s one of the reasons I decided a while ago to move back from digital to analog (I started using ebooks in the early 00s and have been mostly reading ebooks up 2 or 3 years ago, approx.) for as many things as I was able to, not just reading books.

            Physical ownership and ‘not-Internet’ & ‘not-high-tech’ dependent medium should be a lot more resilient to any excess of control, surveillance and censorship than anything digital. Plus, baring accidents, all of those analog things will outlive me and my spouse (we’re both well into our 50s) and, unlike with digital ‘objects’, it’s very easy for us to make sure those analog objects will end up in the hands of a new owner that will know how to best use them… without anyone having much to say about it.

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      Ebooks can be purchased as well, with a little skill (or reading a tutorial) you can make it undeletable and uneditable as well.

      Source: My epub library growing day by day, synced between multiple devices by syncthing.

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        18 hours ago

        Ebooks can be purchased as well, with a little skill (or reading a tutorial) you can make it undeletable and uneditable as well.

        You’re quite right (at least it used to be easy, I have not checked for some time how hard it is now to get rid of Apple’s and/or Amazon’s DRM… the two main DRM-locked ebook sellers), but keep in mind not everybody feels ok to not respect the rules and/or breach the contract they signed. Also there is no need to that at all with printed books.

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          I was just pointing out that if that’s your major reason for buying physical over digital, it’s solved very easily.

          I for one really don’t like owning many physical books because of the space it takes and 95% of my book purchases are digital.

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        Why go through the trouble of purchasing them with DRM and supporting that garbage and doing all the work to make them your own?

        Piracy is infinitely superior.

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            They already don’t get paid. Nearly every writer has to supplement their income with a paying job. Writers know this.

            Piracy doesn’t hurt the writers nearly as much as it hurts the publisher, and that’s the point. If publishers get hurt badly enough and can’t operate properly, then writers will find a different path, and go independent, and keep all the money for themselves. THEN I’d want to buy directly from the author.