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Originally Posted by DMSmillie
Given how popular things like Facebook and Twitter have become, I expect those who use these things find it a nice feature to be able to go straight from reading the book to writing about it on their Facebook page, or tweeting about it. Particularly if they're using their Kindle while out and about, and can connect there and then, on the Kindle itself.
I don't use these tools myself, and I entirely agree that it would have been nicer to have the option to switch that page off. But I guess unlike some I don't see the existence of that page at the end of a book as a major invasion of or blight on my reading experience - I simply page back - one click and the page is gone. I'd feel quite differently about it if I had to follow a series of links to get away from that page, but that isn't the case. Hardly even takes a moment's thought or effort.
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I was doing so well and then for some reason flashed on the ol' "slippery slope" idea. That will be next - forced clicking to avoid a tweet - if we don't start objecting NOW!
I guess we have voluntarily entered Big Brother territory. It will be hard to retreat or maybe that should be retweet (I don't even know what that means). I don't have a facebook account unless one of my so-called friends has managed to create one for me. I do use Twitter since it provides pretty accurate traffic info for my area (and the occasional npr headline-link).