• Beacon@fedia.io
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    19 days ago

    It doesn’t need to stay together for a lifetime, the person only cares about it staying together for a few days till they’re done reading the section, after which it gets disposed of. This makes it much easier for them to actually read it, which means it’s objectively way better.

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      19 days ago

      You…buy a book and then throw it away after you read it? Anyone does that?

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        19 days ago

        In the movie My Blue Heaven, Steve Martin had a trunk full of the same (stolen) book and his excuse was “in case I want to read it more than once.”

        I’ve heard there are PACs or whatever that buy thousands of copies of politicians books so they become best sellers. Does anyone know where the physical copies actually end up?

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        19 days ago

        I don’t, but plenty of people do, and it’s entirely fine if that’s how they want to read

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          18 days ago

          Well no it’s not entirely fine, it’s actually incredibly wasteful. Get a fucking library card if you don’t want to own, gift, or resell the books you read. That’s the Generic You of course.

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      Actively making things worse because you have a shitty consumerist disposable product fetish actively makes the world worse.