It's kind of funny - just as I was reading this last night, S came up the walkway lugging an old boombox, triumphant that after a week we'd finally found a CD player between the various households that are involved in running the zendo. (Someone had sent her a CD with a talk we wanted to play.) I'm not entirely sure how the digital divide argument works in this case - in the case of a physical book, it's its own player/reader. CDs... not so much.

(I'm not in any way disagreeing with your decision. Particular the combination of taxes and all the weird rights issues around digital media - I have really mixed feelings about having gone almost exclusively to ebooks, and my "buy legal copies of everything and then crack or pirate them as well so I have version that I control that will work the way I want them to" is far from ideal.)