Given all this, I think that owning physical copies of books is subversive and I encourage ownership of this thing that can’t be easily taken away from you. I encourage sharing banned books specifically because they’re banned.
Curtis replaced his PKM Weekly blog post with a note on owning physical books (if you can) in an environment where activists of hate will probably soon try to pressure Amazon to delete « banned books », which can be done retroactively on an e-reader.
I’ll add to his post that we can and should also own DRM-free books to share, but his point still stands.
I only buy DRM-free electronic books because of technical obsolesce I have read Michel’s article about his personal problems with the DRM in ebook readers…