Kindle

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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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The Kindle exemplifies just about everything I don't like about DRM and intrusive net services. Would this even be legal in the UK, under the EU privacy directive and the Data Protection Act?

(Disclaimer: I have a Sony PRS-505 ebook reader. It's their 3rd gen model and they've been spanked hard by the market, so it supports RTF and PDF files, it can open files off an SD card, and Sony have refrained from arbitrarily dicking around with their file format to break the open source LIBPRS500 project, a la Apple. In other words, it's Sony, but being less brain-deadeningly evil than is usual these days -- and the hardware's lovely.)