By: Bugs
I don’t understand the debate about book ownership, cause for me its not about owning the books, its about reading them. Remember Shirkey’s essay on reading vs. collecting?? Books are about 10 bucks...
View ArticleBy: Antinous / Moderator
Later that afternoon, at 3:13 PM, I got another email that 1984 suffered the same fate. I even got my $3.20 refunded. Weird thing was… I checked Amazon later and 1984 was back and available for $3.19....
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
As one of my readers noted, it’s like Barnes & Noble sneaking into our homes in the middle of the night, taking some books that we’ve been reading off our nightstands, and leaving us a check on...
View ArticleBy: querent
that book looks crazy, tak. there are many ways to judge a man. i’m not much in for zealous conviction along the lines of “good” or “bad,” myself. :]
View ArticleBy: RedShirt77
It’s good they don’t put “all sales are final” up anywhere. This is why I still buy CD’s and Blue Ray movies. A good lock and a shotgun can keep the corporate goons from repossessing things “just...
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
I’ve got a Kindle 2. Love it. The only thing I’ve ever bought from the Kindle store is a subscription to NYT Breaking News that gets pushed to my device every few hours. Aside from that, I download...
View ArticleBy: Takuan
should Orwell be judged on the balance of his deeds? How much good did he do relative to evil?
View ArticleBy: Takuan
she had no idea what would happen to those she denounced http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385256391
View ArticleBy: zuvembi
Wow, I was contemplating buying a kindle, but was hesitating because of it’s closed nature. Not any longer though, now it’s time to look for something from another manufacturer.
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
This is outrageous. I can understand blocking further sales (even if it is a dumb idea) but not taking back what has already been sold.
View ArticleBy: Antinous / Moderator
The thing is, if you told me that Orwell was a murderer or a pedophile, I would consider it irrelevant to his writing. It’s the particular relationship between the incident and his works that make it...
View ArticleBy: hohum
@47 (sort of @44), That’s how I use mine… I have nothing DRMed on mine at the moment, haven’t found the need to. Uses standard mobi format, and there’s plenty of freely available public-domain...
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
A recent poster said (to paraphrase) “It’s also about remote sabotage of a computer-powered system.” Quite right. And therefore, it’s also about federal laws against sabotage of computer systems. See...
View ArticleBy: Tdawwg
Same here, this is a great discussion. If you mean “apologist” in the sense of “offering a reason for, explaining,” then sure: but the word carries such a weight of “mitigating, explaining away,...
View ArticleBy: angusm
“This ebook is not available on the Kindle. This ebook has never been available on the Kindle.”
View ArticleBy: Takuan
in decades to come, people will look back at the Cheney Presidency and all the lives lost and blighted worldwide as a result of it. They will ask: “Why didn’t decent people DO something”. I guess you...
View ArticleBy: bardfinn
Some said it would never happen; I get to go beat them with the “I Told You So” stick. It’s lonely being right all the time.
View ArticleBy: Tdawwg
Amazon held up the Kindle in its left hand, with the thumb concealed. ‘There are five downloaded ebooks there. Do you see five downloaded ebooks?’ ‘Yes.’ And he did see them, for a fleeting instant,...
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
And this sort of copy right bs is why Paper books are better. Really any electronic thing has this bs policy… so does the stuff on apple store music. Unfortunately everyone feels THEY own stuff YOU...
View ArticleBy: querent
“to praise the good and excoriate the wicked. That’s what writers do.” Right. But most don’t do it in secret lists to clandestine government agencies. Buddy66 @134 makes some great points. I’d say,...
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
This happened to me yesterday. At 10:06 AM I received an email from amazon telling me they processed my ‘return’ and that my $0.99 would be returned for Animal Farm. With my Kindle at home, I opened my...
View ArticleBy: sopekmir
@#98 – yes there WAS assymetry, it trully was. I have no doubt it was bad to spy for communist regimes in free countries, while it was not bad to spy for free conuntries in communist ones. I lived for...
View ArticleBy: querent
Tdawwg, “None of these sources, cited by Wikipedia, agree with you and Antinous; ditto Timothy Garton Ash. Are they all apologists, too?” There are those, even in the article you cited, that do agree...
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