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The Future of Reading - the dystopian side of Amazon's new Kindle described in quotes

ETA unrelated very strange short movie - recommended

ETA unrelated How much of your favourite show is left before they run out of script?

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I saw the "Dive into Mark" post earlier, when I was doing my own RSS feed round-up. Nothing very new in terms of Ebook DRM (the quotes from RMS are literally more than ten years old now), but interesting to see Bezos having to go back on his own reasons for the usefulness and openness of ink on paper, when it becomes bytes on disk.

Regarding the Kindle, as others have said, if the device was < £50, I'd probably buy one today - though I have little need for wireless updates - just being able to read in bed without having to hold up a 1000 page paperback of Cryptonomicon would be useful enough :-)

As for 'before they run out of script', as someone for whom a large part of my entertainment from the net a day or two after the Americans see it, it's unfortunate they will likely be delayed or halted prematurely - because so will my evening entertainments. The Daily Show writers did put it well though, and it's hard not to agree with them as to the fact they are getting a bad deal.