tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041624883246722973.post8744612472900696083..comments2022-11-11T04:13:56.292-08:00Comments on In a Strange Land: Amazon.com is Watching YouIggy Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10834075825456226770noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041624883246722973.post-46425582722033218142009-07-27T04:19:50.334-07:002009-07-27T04:19:50.334-07:00I love my books. I collect them. I know where th...I love my books. I collect them. I know where they all live in my house. I give people who are helping me move a serious case of &#39;you&#39;re joking right?&#39; when they see the wall of book boxes waiting for them.<br /><br />And I love the convenience of being able to carry one piece of technology with a lot of books on it (with the illusion that these are then my books as well). One of my students long ago had a degenerative condition that made lugging textbooks impossible. She had a very early version of something like the Kindle and it was an amazing thing for her; it made accessible sense.<br /><br />Sadly, the following are now also true:<br /><br />- Keeping my own physical copy of a book now becomes a statement of preservation.<br /><br />- The question of who owns a particular copy of a published work now seems destined for the same court as Jarndyce v. Jarndyce. (and literature is just the latecomer to the question - the music industry having already staked out the front row.)<br /><br />And a question pesters me. If Amazon could, unasked and unasking, take a purchased item back from a digital collection, we should in similar fashion be able to return electronic books we&#39;ve purchased for a full refund, yes? It&#39;s not like they&#39;ve become dogeared...Viv Trafalgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04182086392042098807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041624883246722973.post-13536371718604299522009-07-27T00:32:55.790-07:002009-07-27T00:32:55.790-07:00yes. incidents like this one should give you enoug...yes. incidents like this one should give you enough to think about. <br />I am reading good old fashioned books in the subway every morning and seeing the kids with their ipods and audio books or even worse mobile dvd players (yes no joke ... I have seen that ... and more then once) gives me the creeps. <br /><br />But even with books that cannot be seized from us now, one should always remember that Fahrenheidt 451 is also just lingering around the corner.Tenchi Morigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02750808391441927605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5041624883246722973.post-88175212265303474652009-07-25T12:33:56.358-07:002009-07-25T12:33:56.358-07:00I&#39;ve been along for the e-book ride since 1994...I&#39;ve been along for the e-book ride since 1994 with the dawn of PDFs. I&#39;ve been way up there with the accessibility and universal access of the PDF and now way down there with the dratted publishers who want to lock books up so tight they can only be viewed one way by one person. It is a harsh contrast with a paperback which I can do almost anything with. I hope they figure it out one day. I refuse to buy a Kindle because I see it evolving into just another laptop and what&#39;s the point in that? Also, this whole book deleting thing is way scary.Elaine Greywalkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09490094339478164401noreply@blogger.com
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