I am of the understanding that buying books online is hardly worth anything because you don’t actually own anything. Maybe you own the digital file? I’m not sure. I don’t trust the longevity of it, though.
I’m told a lot (mainly by my Dad) that its a good idea to print those out to keep them. However, I’m talking about books that are easily 200+ pages.
I don’t know if its worth the ink or money to print them out. At that point would it be better to just buy a book?
Around about 1979 I read a story story in “Isaac Adimov’s Science Fiction magazine”, set in the future about a women living in a highly automated home.
When she downloaded a book to read, is was printed out in hundreds of loose pages, which she messed up the order of and had to re sort
Two things to take away from this:
Almost 45 years ago an author was able to predict we’d be downloading books, but couldn’t imagine any way of reading it other than printed pages
Secondly, it’s weird the things you can remember just out of the blue