Difficult e-choice

Nowadays we have a plenty of services allowing us to have things we had before in the "hard-copy" - online. And honestly I love it. It saves so much space in the apartment.

Books - services like Amazon Kindle or Google Books allowing you to have your book, no matter how many pages it has, or even whole your library at your fingertips on any device you own.

Musics - no more plastic CD boxes all around, Google Music, iTunes, Deezer or Spotify are here to store and stream you any music in the world.

Videos - video streaming and video on-demand services are here to help you get rid of DVDs in your house.

But frankly speaking I found my-self missing the look and feel of a book, fancy packaging of CD or DVD or even the "limited edition". I realized that while browsing a multimedia store, I didn't actually wanted to buy something but just to please my sense of sight and touch.

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