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Old 08-22-2014, 06:57 PM   #37
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Just like when people called video games "Nintendo" for the longest time.
Or people saying "iPad" for all tablets.

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I'm sure we lost something special when we moved away from Scrolls and towards the Codex format as well. "You don't get the profound sense of new words Unrolling before thee!"


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EBooks aren't for remembering. Terms Of Use surely prohibit that, don't they? All this retention and absorption amount to copying the content and that is piracy and illegal
Reminds me of an article that was just on Techdirt a couple of days ago, "Licensing Boards Think Studying For A Test Is Copyright Infringement, Forbid Memorization Of Material":

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...material.shtml

Or all of those articles about professors which make students destroy their notes at the end of the year:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...07136420.shtml

Stop copying/stealing/learning ideas. You just can't make this stuff up!

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