To each his own. I'm very happy with mine.
I prefer old-fashioned books.
Thanks anyway.
Amazon's ability to delete books off your Kindle is disquieting. Imagine if you went to a Borders, bought a book... later it turned out Borders weren't supposed to have sold it... so Borders employees (not even police with a warrant) break into your house, and take the book back. I don't care if they leave a $20 on the dresser or not. It's complete bullshit.
of course, the reason why Amazon would say they are not the same situation... because you didn't actually buy the BOOK from Amazon, you bought... a LICENSE TO INDULGE. You don't own the damn book. Which is the whole problem!!!.
Yes, it's the future.
Bad things can happen from what seem to be good things. Kindles can snatch back your books. Computers make tracking people easy, from where you go to what you buy. There's a downside and yet what do you do? Progress marches on and you either go with it or are left behind.
A company called Plastic Logic has an e-reader in the works that sounds very promising. It'll go into trial release through selected partners later this year and then go into general release next year. It'll have a thickness of less than 7mm and weigh less than 16 oz, while the reading surface will be 8.5" by 11". It'll be able to display Excel, PowerPoint, Word, PDFs, and others. The screen size means it'll be able to display pages from newspapers, magazines, and comics far better than the smaller e-readers currently on the market.
We'd be living in a pretty terrible world if everyone had that fatalistic attitude: "It's going to happen, there's nothing you can do, suck it up."
A company called Plastic Logic has an e-reader in the works that sounds very promising. It'll go into trial release through selected partners later this year and then go into general release next year. It'll have a thickness of less than 7mm and weigh less than 16 oz, while the reading surface will be 8.5" by 11". It'll be able to display Excel, PowerPoint, Word, PDFs, and others. The screen size means it'll be able to display pages from newspapers, magazines, and comics far better than the smaller e-readers currently on the market.
The e-paper technology is pretty good, but i'm not willing to pay money for books and not own them. Enough other media is slotting into that "you don't own it, you just have a license to watch/listen/read on our terms", I consider books to be a little more sacred, not willing to pay for a "license to indulge" in a closed circle.
Amazon's ability to delete books off your Kindle is disquieting. Imagine if you went to a Borders, bought a book... later it turned out Borders weren't supposed to have sold it... so Borders employees (not even police with a warrant) break into your house, and take the book back. I don't care if they leave a $20 on the dresser or not. It's complete bullshit.
All new tech should be subject to debate, but that requires people to actually think about the issues and not just assume it's all going to work out. We need people to get in line and pay ridiculous sums for each new Kindle or iPod, and we also need people to point out where the vision is going wrong.
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