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E-books are an excellent idea. I read e-books on my iPaq quite frequently. The UVA online library rocks - all the books are out-of-copyright. But I would never ever ever buy an e-book that I had to register my ownership of and report the resale of (if I was even "allowed" to resell it). It is positively 1984-style creepy to register your books. Not even East Germany had a system for that. These are the reasons e-books failed - and e-book people STILL don't see that - they are so blind.

You could put all the money ever made by DRMed music in a thimble for the same reasons.

I'm bad clientelle for any of that kind of stuff. I'm not into portable computing, PDAs, e-books, the whole subset doesn't interest me. I like to get away from the electron once in a while, no cellphone or pager either. I'm a techie, but I'm not a saturation person. Now if they ever get those electric paper things they keep saying are right around the corner I might change my tune.