[jessaustin]

When you bought vinyl or CDs, you owned that. How can a temporary rental be worth the same?

[tedunangst]

Because it takes up less space in my house.

[reitanqild]

I say not valid because you can rip the physical media and store the original in cheap offsite storage for whoever inherits you => best of both worlds.

[tedunangst]

I say not valid because audio doesn't have DRM anymore, just books, and ripping a book to PDF is more work than I'm inclined to do.

[dublinben]

This service [0] will do that for you for as little as $1 a book.

[0] http://1dollarscan.com/

[tedunangst]

More like $6 or $8 really. And at some point, I'd really just rather start reading instead of paying more and waiting two weeks.