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I have started to buy some technical books again, because the ebook version requires some insane locked down proprietary application to read, or causes the book to self destruct after a few months...

No.

I prefer ebooks for many reasons, and I have purchased thousands of them over the past two decades.

Sometimes a printed book is better for dense technical material. But I'm starting to see textbooks that seem to have been designed as web pages: large x-height, clumsy justification and hyphenation.

No proprietary apps to read a book, please.



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