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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.