Amazon, as of Feb 28, will end user rights and ownership of kindle books, blocking people like us from downloading kindle materials from our kindles or kindle readers into normal text or video.
Be warned and if you want ownership, Act Immediately.
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The Kindle betrayal of its customers, and the ever increasing idiot scam and sales pitches via my e-mail and etc accounts has pushed me over the edge. For the security of my properties, peace of my mind, and in a probably vain attempt to regain the analog joy of old fashioned fleshly actual human sociability, I am now retreating as fast as I can from the digital.
METAR is sufficiently cranky, old fashioned, and not yet an avenue of attacks on me and mine that it is one of the very few places I have choosen to stick around.
Be careful and ever more prudent out there.
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I pretty much assume that anything Jeff Bezos is involved with is a scam. I probably spend less than $200/year on Amazon – and that’s only if I can’t find the item elsewhere.
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Wow. I confess I am a fan of the old fashioned books on paper, with the one argument that tempted me being the ease of travel with a Kindle for love books. Glad I resisted. I wonder how this impacts libraries who allow for borrowing of books electronically.
IP,
who admits to not clicking on the link, but tends to avoid video links
I love books and have always been an avid reader, especially on cold/snowy days. I switched to eBooks many years ago after a house remodel project. Had to clear out my library, started realizing of all the hundreds of books I had, maybe only re-read a few. So decided to donate books to the library and literally bottomed out the springs on my truck. Just don’t see “restocking” my library again.
Road trips/vacations I always had my book with me because it minimum had the reader app on my iPhone.
Will be interesting to see how it affects my local library system. You can either read a book through their Libby app or through the Kindle app. I can’t see why things would change there. I have about 5 books I’m waiting in line to download. They say I’m number X with Y number of eBooks in circulation. So while Amazon is kind of involved in that you can use the Kindle app or Kindle reader, you can always revert to the Library app. So that seems to come down to whatever with whomever agreement.
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My wife and I are avid readers and had amassed a big collection of books. We thought there might be an opportunity to move overseas (there wasn’t) and had to go through and cull the library.
Turns out there were many, many books we loved and didn’t want to give up for that reason, but we weren’t going to read again. So we gave them up. And then we did the whole exercise another time. The thought was we loved these books so we should give someone else the chance to enjoy them too. We never missed any of the books we gave away. I did like having a big library of books though. I had the bookshelves right in the living room and guests were immediately drawn to them.
Umberto Eco had an interesting thought. The books you haven’t read are the most important. He called it the “antilibrary.”
I figure there are about 2,000 books in my antilibrary. I don’t know what they are yet. But that’s roughly the number I will read before I die.
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In the course of our multiple moves, we have donated literally thousands of books, though rest assured I certainly did not pay full price for them. I had to document them via pictures and inventory back in the days when you could get a tax break for those. Since our kids are e-book people, we gave away their all but the crawl in my lap and let me read to you books, that I hope someday to be sharing with grandkids. These went to the new rural library with a very small budget and empty shelves, that is down the street from our vacation home. Since then the state regulations are such that even with plenty of space on the shelves the librarians have to get rid of books that have not been taken out within something like a year. We still have thousands more, but I am done with donations to that library, cash or otherwise.
These days, books I have read, all with rare exception, go into a Little Free Library. Many times I manage to take back just as many, but at times am disciplined enough to have a net reduction in my library. I particularly love these when we are traveling, allowing me to refresh my reading material on the road.
I do revisit my old friends. Some books get better with each reading.
IP
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