This is a hand-me-down copy of Clan of the Cave Bear - an embodiment of both the argument for and the argument against e-books.

What once was a smell that brought me back to browsing libraries and used book store shelves for hours at a time with great delight in the information and stories filling the walls from floor to ceiling, has become a visceral stench of age and decay. Old books now smell musty and make my nose tickle. They are bulky and don’t hold up very well to the ages, a fact the copious amounts of packing tape holding the binding together are a testament to. And still, for an e-book to last as long as this book would likely be just short of a miracle. The companies over burden their books with copy protection and rights limiting software designed to lock you into a single device, although they claim it’s to protect the artists’ profits. What are the chances that Amazon and Barnes and Noble will be around in 25 years to support your digital purchases? This book has stood the test of time (and the ones surrounding it are still respectably aged when considering the life times of digital files).

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