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justalurkrBut if, like me, you are attracted to the new, the cool, the shiiiny in life, and haven't thought it through, please read on:
Got a hankering for the Amazon Kindle? An entire freakin' library right in your hand, guys. Those of us in tiny spaces with big book tastes can testify to the appeal!
But wait! You have bunches of books now? Is every single book you've ever read still under your roof? More to the point, did you really pay full retail for every one of them? Or do you have a healthy barter economy with other book fiends, the local used bookshop or (gasp) your local library?
Before you think about "investing" in a Kindle (reduced from $399 to $359 according to wikipedia; by Grapthar's Hammer, what a savings!) please read the following:
The Kindle swindle
And picture never getting a book for less than full retail again, nor doing anything with it other than reading & keeping it again.
Now that Amazon is buying my favorite online retailer, www.audible.com, I wonder how long the current flat rate credit system + the ability to burn content to disk is going to last? The ability to ensure that every pair of eyeballs that ever touches text (or every ear that hears the dulcet tones of an audiobook) has paid full list must be a publisher's wet dream.
Got a hankering for the Amazon Kindle? An entire freakin' library right in your hand, guys. Those of us in tiny spaces with big book tastes can testify to the appeal!
But wait! You have bunches of books now? Is every single book you've ever read still under your roof? More to the point, did you really pay full retail for every one of them? Or do you have a healthy barter economy with other book fiends, the local used bookshop or (gasp) your local library?
Before you think about "investing" in a Kindle (reduced from $399 to $359 according to wikipedia; by Grapthar's Hammer, what a savings!) please read the following:
The Kindle swindle
And picture never getting a book for less than full retail again, nor doing anything with it other than reading & keeping it again.
Now that Amazon is buying my favorite online retailer, www.audible.com, I wonder how long the current flat rate credit system + the ability to burn content to disk is going to last? The ability to ensure that every pair of eyeballs that ever touches text (or every ear that hears the dulcet tones of an audiobook) has paid full list must be a publisher's wet dream.
