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Jim Henderson wrote:
> Removed from the archive as well - so if you bought them and archived
> them, they were gone.
Well, yes. That goes with the "archive" bit, I thought.
I guess if you bought it, deleted it, and then they removed it from the
archive, you were screwed, yes. I hadn't thought of that.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Serving Suggestion:
"Don't serve this any more. It's awful."
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:51:47 -0800, Darren New wrote:
>
>> nemesis wrote:
>>> that's plain FUD last time I heard, both from tree killers and
>>> traditional book publishers.
>> Well, they've done it twice already. My response is that it's so rare
>> you can just go out and buy the book on paper if it happens to you.
>
> Except that you've already paid for it, so why should you pay again for
> it?
Well, amazon gives you the money back when this happens, generally speaking.
If not, it's low on my list of problems to worry about. Like, what happens
if this old game I already beat has DRM that doesn't work on the new
computer? Annoying, but not like "hey, stop foreclosing on my house" or
something.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:36:00 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:51:47 -0800, Darren New wrote:
>>
>>> nemesis wrote:
>>>> that's plain FUD last time I heard, both from tree killers and
>>>> traditional book publishers.
>>> Well, they've done it twice already. My response is that it's so rare
>>> you can just go out and buy the book on paper if it happens to you.
>>
>> Except that you've already paid for it, so why should you pay again for
>> it?
>
> Well, amazon gives you the money back when this happens, generally
> speaking.
>
> If not, it's low on my list of problems to worry about. Like, what
> happens if this old game I already beat has DRM that doesn't work on the
> new computer? Annoying, but not like "hey, stop foreclosing on my
> house" or something.
Some people like to refer back to the books they bought and already read,
that's my point.
Jim
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nemesis <nam### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> That said, it's the only portable device I'd ever buy, aside from the cheapest
> possible cell*phones* and Nintendo's upcoming 3DS. I don't get it people who
> buy an iPhone to answer calls in the middle of some tense gaming moment or to
> read ebooks in tiny letters... :)
Some people use it as a game console. Others appreciate the ability to
browse the internet from anywhere.
--
- Warp
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> Some people like to refer back to the books they bought and already read,
> that's my point.
Sure. You buy Animal Farm for the Kindle. You pay $10. You read it on your
Kindle. Amazon deletes it off your Kindle and gives you your $10 back. You
drive to B&N and buy a paper copy for $10.
I'm not saying it's good that Amazon can do this, but on the grand scale
from "inconvenience" to "catastrophe", it seems it's much closer to the former.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:13:29 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Some people like to refer back to the books they bought and already
>> read, that's my point.
>
> Sure. You buy Animal Farm for the Kindle. You pay $10. You read it on
> your Kindle. Amazon deletes it off your Kindle and gives you your $10
> back. You drive to B&N and buy a paper copy for $10.
>
> I'm not saying it's good that Amazon can do this, but on the grand scale
> from "inconvenience" to "catastrophe", it seems it's much closer to the
> former.
It's that "generally speaking" that bothers me. Is it in Amazon's terms
that if they delete a book from your device/archive, they will give you a
refund?
Jim
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On 13/01/2011 05:22 PM, Darren New wrote:
> That's the link I was looking for.
>
> http://www.slashgear.com/qualcomm-mirasol-color-ereader-hands-on-0869191/
That display looks very, very dark. Maybe it's just a bad picture, but
it looks almost unreadable.
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On 13/01/2011 05:11 PM, Stephen wrote:
> On 13/01/2011 4:41 PM, Invisible wrote:
>> (I have no idea about other e-readers, but the Kindle range is very
>> small indeed.)
>
Riiiight. So the bit where I sat there looking up my grandparent's
favourite authors and found that most of them had zero or one books
available for the Kindle, but dozens or hundreds in dead tree format...
that was all a figment of my imagination, yes?
> Unless of course the Kindle cannot upload from a PC.
How does that help?
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> My current phone has a camera in it. I have no idea why. The images it
> forms are just barely recognisable.
I mainly use mine to replace jotting down notes while out and about. If
I see something in a shop I like the look of, just take a snap of the
price/detail sticker on it, or the other day I needed to get some
replacement part for my garage door, so I just took a snap of the model
number sticker on the inside then looked it up later.
> It also thinks its am MP3 player. I have no idea why. The sound quality
> of a 2mm speaker is, obviously, abysmal.
A lot of people like to listen to music whilst travelling (using
headphones), having such functionality in a phone saves having to carry
an additional device.
> On the other hand, it was the only flip phone I could find in the entire
> shop that says "Nokia" on it, so...
Yes, unfortunately flip-phones seem to have rather gone out of fashion,
in the UK at least.
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On 14/01/2011 9:02 AM, Invisible wrote:
> On 13/01/2011 05:11 PM, Stephen wrote:
>> On 13/01/2011 4:41 PM, Invisible wrote:
>>> (I have no idea about other e-readers, but the Kindle range is very
>>> small indeed.)
>>
>
> Riiiight. So the bit where I sat there looking up my grandparent's
> favourite authors and found that most of them had zero or one books
> available for the Kindle, but dozens or hundreds in dead tree format...
> that was all a figment of my imagination, yes?
>
Looked in the right places.
>> Unless of course the Kindle cannot upload from a PC.
>
> How does that help?
There are lots of places where you can download ebooks to your PC.
For instance:
http://www.archive.org/details/texts
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Regards
Stephen
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