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11-29-2007, 09:44 PM | #1 |
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A bookstore for people who like the books at the grocery store shelf
I am not one of the people who complains because the reader does not play dvds and retrieve my golf balls. But I would like to be able to get books that I want to read that I can get at the local library. The Sony ebookstore has a limited collection of "classics" and a large collection of popular trash, the latter for about the same price as the real books. It does not appear to have an English Dictionary of ANY kind on its site! Wouldn't it be nice to be able to look up a word while you were reading? It does, however, have "Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary II". The perfect device and ebookstore for Americans today.
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11-29-2007, 10:24 PM | #2 |
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Most books at the checkout are romance trash. The best use for romance pbooks is to recycle it into toilet paper. I saw on TV the other day (in HD 1080i) how they make toilet paper from recycled paper.
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I'd agree, if a dictionary is a big deal, look toward the Kindle or the Cybook Gen3. Possibly the iLiad if you want to invest that much money.
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We have romance fans around here, some of them have high standards and I respect that but I guess what they like would not be on grocery store check out shelves. That shelf is usually a preselected range of popular books and I don't understand what criteriae those books are chosen from and who does that selection. Some places have better judgement as to include HP or something as good but it usually stops there.
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I found over 1800 classics on Connect. That might be "limited" to some, but not to me. |
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My main point about the dictionary was that any bookstore that does not have a single dictionary available for purchase is not much of a bookstore. As for the "classics", the collection is oddly limited. Many of the books are not necessarily classics, just what they appear to have obtained from some sort of collection. For example, they have every single thing George Bernard Shaw ever wrote, many of which were hardly classics, but nothing written by William Faulkner!
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11-30-2007, 03:37 PM | #10 |
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I think your being a bit unfair dunster, a dictionary isnt something people read! and its a sony reader! it would be impossible to use a dictionary as a dictionary so why put one in their store.
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William Faulkner died in 1962. His first book was published in something like 1926. I seriously doubt any of his books are in the public domain. I don't know who actually holds the e-rights to his various books, but whoever it is obviously hasn't made them readily available. I found no Kindle editions of Faulkner's books either.
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And they sell the Soap Opera magazines and trashy gossip rags at the checkouts too.
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