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[–] Gargilius 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

virtual library

Nope.

You want physical books. Why? because nobody knows which physical books I currently own, and which ones I am currently reading (down to which chapter I linger the longest on...); nobody can sneak in and remove books from my collection (at least not easily, and without me knowing.... well perhaps one could, but this is not a form of attack that can be scaled up to a whole population of physical books owning citizen); ditto about modifying the contents of said books without you noticing (as can be done with ebooks); nobody can control (as easily) which books you can purchase (and track it); and do buy these physical books from actual brick and mortar bookstores, new or second hand, from flee markets, from acquaintances.

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[–] TekJax ago 

How many people have ever had a computer camera or phone with an exposed camera in their room/house before?

There have been programs created for phones as spyware to make updated 3d maps/layouts for people's houses for sure.

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[–] Silencedmajor 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

There are plenty of ereaders out there that don't require an account and would have no clue what you were reading, when and how. There are countless sources for online books, freely available that take up no room at all that can be dragged and dropped into a folder on a device.

If you choose to buy direct from Amazon and read on a Kindle with whispersync switched on, then you may have some excuse for paranoia, but there are a multitude of other electronic means to read books.

Physical books are great, but not everybody has the means or space to acquire and accomodate them. Let's not put up barriers to what a revelation ebooks are to spread information. If they were that ineffective, Amazon and others wouldn't be burning ebooks.

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[–] Gargilius 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Cost is not an argument; physical books - especially if you buy second hand ones - are dirt cheap, if not free if you know where to look; considerably cheaper than commercial ebooks - ebooks versions of recently published work are often just as expensive as their dead trees counterparts (ok, there are free ebooks out there and I have a bunch of them - especially old classics); physical books do indeed take up space and are heavy (something I know as a book worm who moves often) - but it is worth it; there is a whole world of written texts that google or their ilk doesn't know about.

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[–] LightestHour ago 

And if you're desperate, print your ebooks.