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?

Comments

[henry_the_cow]

Re the TV shows: you mean they really are making it up as they go along? That would explain why they're all so crap.

Re DRM: I presume you are allowed to lend or give the Kindle itself, so some of Stallman's analogies don't apply.

The Kindle's monitoring may seem extreme but it's clearly based on current retail web sites, which give you no ability to opt out of tracking and monitoring you. This is a broader issue than just e-books.

Conversely, I don't see how the DRM question will ever go away. People want to enforce their legal rights and the only way that can be done is with a trusted hardware platform. Although I don't see why anyone would make a device that couldn't also display public domain material.