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Libraries can solve issues 2 and 3 for those folks.

Depending on where you live and how good is your library selection, yes, and I do encourage people to do that.

Growing in up in Brazil though, didn't have much luck at that time, finding things that I wanted.

Edit: this was for books in Brazilian Portuguese. When I started focusing on books in English - to prepare to move to Canada - I bought Kindle books because otherwise, I would have to pay for international shipping, buy for high price in a Brazilian bookseller, wait up to 2 months for bookdepository delivery...

If, say, create a book where the written content is not the whole experience I want to pass the reader, it's perfectly reasonable to withhold certain formats.

If I want readers to experience the size, weight, texture and smell as integral parts of the book, it should be my right to prevent others from putting my name on lesser experiences.

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