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

[Keith Davis]

Possessionless?

I see the attraction and positive aspects of having a Kindle or similar
device (my son has one and it's pretty cool), but I still love my books,
even if there are too many of them and they're taking up way too much
space.

Then there's the Zen ideal, or whatever you want to call it, of being free
of possessions, but doesn't that lead to that "infinite regress" we were
talking about not so long ago, and which Laura seems to be alluding to?
Hmm, hi tech brain implant....Maybe a replacement at this point!

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:23 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Oops!  Nigh-possesionlike should be nigh-possesionless - not that either's
> an actual word.
>
> LK
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: kelber at mindspring.com
> >Sent: Mar 9, 2012 2:21 PM
> >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: Re: Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion
> Over E-Book Pricing
> >
> >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
> >
>
>


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