I have cheap paperbacks from the 1960’s and 70’s I bought at a second hand bookstore in the 90’s on my shelf.

They are fragile and yellow but still sticking together on my shelves and for when I want to reread them. It helps that I live in a region with low humidity.

Hell I gave a few books I inherited from my great-grandmother from 1910-1920. They were on decent paper but not the best quality.

Most of my cookbooks are 40-50 years old now and they are pretty beat up but still in reasonable condition.

The counterargument to that is pretty straightforward…

Books, and other physical media have no inherent time limit on the use. So when I buy a book, I expect to be able to have it for the rest of my life, the life of my kids, maybe even grandkids. I do not own the copywrited material, but I do own the physical copy.

So the reasonable expectation of ownership of the copy when the terms “Buy” or “Purchase” is used , is it’s a permanent purchase of the copy. We have a clear terms for time limited purchases, it’s called “Rent” or “Borrow”.

Therefore the retailers using the terms “Buy” or “Purchase” deliberately decieved the customers for the terms of the purchase aka fraud.