Pity the Kindle Generation

[Joe Allonby]

I like the search functions. Kinda hard to do with a paper book
without an index.


On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>"What if "they" pull the plug on something which is  "incorrect" in some way?"
>
> I think this is yet another instance of "if they can get you asking
> the wrong questions..."
>
> digital versions are more permanent, not less permanent. they are
> easily replicable and distributable. there need be no "central
> production" site, you can't burn down or bomb the printing press, the
> paper can't spoil, etc.
>
> sure, there are a lot of (new) wrinkles -- formats can go into disuse,
> files can be corrupted, mistakes can proliferate, there can be many,
> many, many versions etc. (I would guess that in the nearaway future
> the job of textual analysis & comparison of versions will become a
> huge headache, or only mechanically feasible).
>
> i like having and holding real books a lot. but i really like being
> able to skim through, say, a Chelsea Handler book and then to delete
> it without a) worrying whether it is replaceable b) destroying trees
> c) causing a fire hazard etc.
>
> as with so many things, with books too sturgeon's law applies.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:45 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Whatever is downloaded onto an individual Kindle stays there until it
>> is deleted by the Kindle owner.  After deletion, the e-book is still
>> in the individual's account to be downloaded again, if desired.  So
>> it's possible that the content rights of one's account might change.
>> The way to safeguard against that would be to keep a copy of the
>> e-book in another storage device.
>>
>> The thing I most dislike about my Kindle (including audio books) is
>> the very clunky way of flipping forward and backward.  Unless one
>> places bookmarks regularly, there is no easy way.  And one doesn't
>> know what one might want to review later when reading something for
>> the first time.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> By the way, what happened with the e-version of CL49 in England. It used to be available in England, but last time I looked, it wasn't. Did the people who bought it get to keep it?
>>
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