Im torn. On one hand yes everything is available digitally. On the other I like having hard copies and not thinking about backing up 3 hard drives and random hard drive failure and managing an even larger library on a computer…its nice just to have the media exist. And what happens when our ability to own media disappears (which looks to be a very real possibility).
They do take up space. I may keep the ones I really like and get rid of others.
I easily have over 300. Along with dvds, but im keeping those.
You’re honestly a far more forgiving man than me. My bitterness towards the same realization you had is what drove me to piracy. To me, I was playing by the rules and losing to the corporations that kept getting away with cheating and of no one well enforce the rule then it isn’t one. I don’t pirate to make a grand stand, I do it because I’m petty and powerless and that’s all I can do to enjoy the media I love.
If you still have all those ebooks and readers, there are ways around all the muck that can give them to you for real. Though honestly I think you have the healthier view.
I dare say we shared the same bitterness (and anger) in realizing that absurd situation they created. But it also happens I’m getting old, well into my 50s, and have quite a few severe health issues making it an almost certain fact that I won’t last indefinitely . Knowing that, I’d rather not waste whatever time I have left dealing with such nonsense. So pirating is not the best option for me but it’s certainly not something I would frown upon or discourage anyone from doing if they wanted to.
I do. But I also realized I would never be able to read those ebooks as comfortably without using a device whose behavior (aka what it tracks and reports back to its maker) I can’t, or not easily, control. The only way I now read my ebooks is on my Linux computer using the Foliate epub reader (or Calibre, for all other file formats) because I know Linux and Free/libre software/apps are much more trustworthy than anything else. Alas, reading on a computer is often a lot less comfortable than reading a good old printed book that I can easily carry with me and that I can read whenever I’m not working at my desk.