Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I have to admit that I have fantasies of living in a clutter-free (no books, no papers),zen-like, nigh-posessionlike environment.  But then greed kicks in: zen-like, except for a computer, and a TV, and an audio system, and a mattress, and a place to keep my clothes, etc.  What's the ultimate clutter-free environment that still fulfills the greed quotient?  Naked person on mattress in prison cell with hi tech brain implant.  Which brings me, full circle, back to the notion that piles of books and papers all over the place might not be so bad after all.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>Sent: Mar 9, 2012 11:45 AM
>To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>Cc: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>, pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing
>
>On Mar 8, 2012, at 10:55 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> And I'm sure they are guilty, too....proving it will be harder...
>> 
>> I can't see paying for a book without resale value ...
>
>That's my sister's voice I hear. (lol)  But she doesn't have hundreds or thousands of books.  
>
>I have so many, many books and I know darned well they are worth zip on any market.  It will likely be a big bother to get rid of them even free.   The good ones are all marked up,  the junk is junk.   (TPR's books are among the very well-marked.)   It wouldn't bother me if my kids each took a couple books each to remind them of their dear old bookish mum,  but the thought of them having to get rid of thousands of books somewhere (the dump?) is hard - I don't care for the books so much as for what my kids do with their time.  They sure couldn't tote them 1000+ miles to where they live to put them in storage at some ungodly cost only to be dumped by the grandkids.   
>
>I am so glad for ebooks and audio books.  No storage- no dumping - no clearing out.  I still buy all sorts of books - paperback, hard-cover, ebook, audio but I've grown rather fonder of the Kindle for several reasons (not least of which is the variable font size). 
>
>Bekah