6 Jun
2013
6 Jun
'13
8:59 a.m.
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, David Riley wrote:
On Jun 6, 2013, at 9:37 AM, "Alexandre
Souza" <alexandre.tabajara at gmail.com> wrote:
Hmmm, all the material you sent me was unknown by me until now, and I think it deserves
a careful reading...Thanks for sharing!
I like the Kindle app on my phone for the convenience factor, but our
corporate overlords at Amazon have done some pretty objectionable
things. The most amusing/chilling episode I can recall (which RMS
doesn't mention in that article) was when they remotely deleted
copies of several Orwell books including 1984 from customers who had
paid for them. Legally, they were actually doing the correct thing
because the party that had submitted it to the Kindle store didn't
have distribution rights (we can get into the ethics of copyright law
elsewhere), but it was still rather ominous.
I bought one of the "ad supported" Kindles - and didn't bother to let
it
have access to my wireless network. :) Any books I buy that have DRM on
them have it stripped off before it hits the Kindle. (So far, one title.
:) )
A Kindle is great for reading novels, but I don't see it adding any value
over a paper reference book. It can't meet the speed of navigating a
paper book. :)
BTW, if you want a wonderful source of DRM-free science fiction and
fantasy books, I can't recommend Baen Books highly enough.
g.
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I still believe in Kindle. For me, it is a perfect
solution to a
paper-free world (which I don't want to live in, but sometimes is
good to have most of your techinical books and manuals in such a
small package!)
I don't think your belief in data preservation using the
Kindle is
well justified at all if the company you get your e-books from is
freely able to wipe your data. At the very least, I hope you didn't
buy your paper-free books from Amazon. See http://stallman.org/amazon.html