I guess if every book was available
in electronic format with no DRM [Digital Rights Management; the ability to choose on which devices you can read and share a book — Books Editor] for
reasonable prices ($ 10 max for new / bestseller / omnibus, scaling downwards for popularity and value) it just wouldn't be worth the
time, effort and risk to find, download, convert and load the book when the same thing could be
accomplished with a single click on your Kindle.
Accompanied by his former tutor, the
accomplished French artist Charles - Louis Clérisseau (who specialised
in ruins) and two draughtsmen, he managed to make a
reasonable survey
in a short
time despite having insufficient permits and being thwarted by the Venetian authorities who regarded the group as spies.