“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
“People tend to find books when they are ready for them.”
“People who read books," he went on, "tend to be dispensable. Extremely.”
“He reached out to stroke the spines of the books, as if they might whisper their secrets to him if he touched them. But the books remained silent, as all good books tend to do when touched by people to whom they don't belong.”
“Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It’s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.”
“There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it”