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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I certainly would not want anything resembling a paper book. Compared to e-readers they're clumsy and much less comfortable to hold. If I wanted paper books, I'd read paper books.
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I dunno about that. I think they may be the most comfortable. Turn pages with either hand, if it were lightweight, durable and possessed massive storage and was bendable, I would be interested. I never worried about dropping a paperback and they fit in my cargo pants. Don't get me wrong, I prefer ebooks over paper but wouldn't mind the best of both worlds. To each their own.
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
As to company-controlled readers, I would not fancy them overmuch either. My Kindles stay in airplane mode most of the time and I sideload my books. But I don't really sweat it either. So what if a corporation knows what I read?
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Well, you may not care about your privacy but I do. I vote with my dollars by not purchasing hardware I know has software I can't trust.
Knowledge of what I read is actually something of a deal for me. Last bastion of privacy and all that.
It's fine to stay in airplane mode most of the time. I wonder if Kindles store logs for when they have network connectivity.
There are always options. If more people cared, they would exercise their options but if people are content to be spied on, that's their choice. Personally, I make a different choice.
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
They can read my e-mail too by that logic and listen in to my phone calls and know what I watch on Netflix etc. etc. If one wants to retain total privacy in today's world, one must get off internet and live in a desert somewhere. I don't want to live in a desert without internet, so there'll always be some compromise on privacy.
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They can read your email and they can listen to your phone calls. Difference being if you care enough, you can make sure they can't read your emails and there are privacy options for making secure phone calls. People don't care so they don't exercise them. I don't have Netflix for the same reason I don't have a Kindle but I certainly don't suffer from a lack of viewing options. You may not be able to achieve total privacy but that's no reason to throw away what little you can carve out for yourself. In my way of thinking anyway.
The future will be an interesting place.