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There's a special kind of grumpy old techno-luddite, and I am describing myself here, who says "Ha! You actually fell for all that e-book and digital downloads trickery, buying DIGITAL-ONLY products with no way to be sure that you really truly own them or have them? You TRUSTED THE CLOUD? Then you get what they deserve when they all disappear, I've been bracing for the day that happens ever since the whole thing started."

and since 1998 have only bought actual tangible physical books with pages that turn, video games on physical disc, and movies only on VHS and DVD and BluRay. ((But yeah, I have a STEAM library. Nobody's perfect.))



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