My issue is that buying most ebooks means I can’t even share them with one person in real life and I have to use an Adobe app to read them. I’m certain that means I’ll lose them all some day.

I would buy books if they were open. I will pirate if they are not because if I own something I want to actually own it.

I’d be fine with not owning it by using a library but I don’t want to wait 6 weeks for any decently popular book, and from my experience their supply is very limited and I can’t request an ebook from another library system like you often can with real books.