I own my books

I love reading. I caught the bug as a middle-schooler when I got caught skipping school, and as punishment, I had to read The Chronicles of Amber and do a book report about it. Even today, opening a book and fanning the pages to get the paper smell activates very fond memories and emotions. I remember a time before e-readers came out. I always thought reading on one seemed very futuristic. In military sci-fi books, characters are reading on their data pads, and reading on an e-reader makes me feel like a sci-fi character. Physically, e-readers are superior in every way to paper books. I can increase the font size. I can increase brightness. I can read in the sun. I can read in the pool. My entire library fits into my pocket. I can look up the definitions of words. Capitalists really hate when consumers love something, so of course they want to ruin e-readers. They do that by implementing digital rights management (DRM), and making people agree to draconian agreements such that the…