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did not buy a book
2014-11-22 17:22Today, I refused buying a book I truly wish to read because it isn't available in ebook format. It's the first time, I consequently stopped further overloading my bursting shelves.
I am willing and able to deal with all - except the content-crippling forms (!) - of current DRM (Amazon, Adobe *BLECH*, watermarks...) in order to get to read a book I want.
I obtained books from Smashwords (sadly their paying system no longer plays with my credit card institute), Amazon.de, Thalia.de,... even Google Books (albeit mostly collecting their freebies, as I do with Google music and video ;-) ) without batting an eyelash, but paper-only these days means hauling 800 pages of dead weight on to my daily commute *or* only reading on weekends instead of writing, both "features" tend to result in the book not being read at all ( = wasted money), in addition to having to find shelf space for it.
So, Martin Schemm's book got relocated from my "check for reading" list to "hardware only / not worth it". For a bookoholic like me, that's a sad event!
I am willing and able to deal with all - except the content-crippling forms (!) - of current DRM (Amazon, Adobe *BLECH*, watermarks...) in order to get to read a book I want.
I obtained books from Smashwords (sadly their paying system no longer plays with my credit card institute), Amazon.de, Thalia.de,... even Google Books (albeit mostly collecting their freebies, as I do with Google music and video ;-) ) without batting an eyelash, but paper-only these days means hauling 800 pages of dead weight on to my daily commute *or* only reading on weekends instead of writing, both "features" tend to result in the book not being read at all ( = wasted money), in addition to having to find shelf space for it.
So, Martin Schemm's book got relocated from my "check for reading" list to "hardware only / not worth it". For a bookoholic like me, that's a sad event!
