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Originally Posted by HarryT
Do you send your books to your Kindle with Calibre? By default, it sends files which are "books", not "documents". The difference is in the metadata.
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There you go, you have discovered another one of the things I do not do.
I don't pass my choice of reading matter through Amazon's hands.
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I grew up in a semi-rural, small town where the public school did not have a library.
The county sent a bookmobile around once a week or once every other week.
The interior was marked off in 'grade levels' and the supervising librarian would not let you even browse in the 'wrong' grade level section.
Even so, you had to let the librarian standing at the door look through each book you wanted to take out.
By the year that third grade started, I had enough of that interference with my choice of reading matter.
I went through the chain of command (mother -> teacher -> assistant principal) and got written, signed, permission to chose my own books from anywhere in the bookmobile, without passing them through the hands of the guards at the doors.
The first time I used my written permission, the librarian in charge called my teacher down and had her verify the letter and the signatures.
Even now, about 64 years later, I don't like the idea of passing my personal choice of books through Amazon's hands any more than I liked passing my choice of books through the hands of the guard at the door.
Looking back at the situation from over a 1/2 century, the cold war had just gone through its biggest public 'red scare' with Joseph McCarthy's years in office.
And he would lend his name to a term that was not, then, commonly used to describe such situations: McCarthyism.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/McCarthyism
I didn't like even implied McCarthyism when I was in the second and third grade.
I still don't.
If I want to read 'subversive' (or any other kind of) materials, it is no business of the librarian guarding the door, Joe McCarthy or Amazon.
Oh, the potentially subversive materials I wanted to check out where the children's science fiction by Robert Heinlein.
Which Amazon will now a-days gladly send to your Kindle, just give them some money.
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