I confess, I am an audiobook and ebook junkie! They always say that the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. Just don't know where to go for therapy. I like to download audiobooks for my smart phone so that I can listen to them when I go for a walk/run or when driving to and from work. Ebooks are great, I use an Ipad and have numerous ebooks. It has cut down the number of books I carry between classes when I am teaching and has prevented me from building more bookshelves at home. At one stage I calculated that at the current rate I was accumulating books that I would need a at least two more rooms built onto my house!! Now that is a thing of the past. I can have thousands of books on my Ipad and they are totally portable, I can even take them on holidays (just have to find the money for the holiday). Try taking your bookshelves on holidays!
Copyright is always a problem. I tend to find that I will spend the money on books that really interest me and I think that the vast majority of the population would be the same. I would be interested to know if your carbon footprint is smaller by using an ebook rather then buying the book.
Great work on completing the course. I hope you have discovered a few new tools along the way. I really enjoyed reading your comprehensive posts. Well done!!
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