Can I ask Why was my thread deleted?

[RainingLemur]

Originally Posted by odiakkoh

Well the whole story does make a big difference. "Hey how do you get blood out of a shirt, I got a bloody noise" will get a different reaction from "Hey how do you get blood out of a shirt, I stabbed a guy and he squirted all over me".

:P

I hate it when your stab victims get blood on your shirt...

[karunaji]

Originally Posted by kennyc

No you can't unless the poster says that.

Unless something was deleted from the original thread, the girl simply said that she got the djvu book from a friend and wants it to covert to mobi format. How does this constitute piracy???

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by karunaji

Unless something was deleted from the original thread, the girl simply said that she got the djvu book from a friend and wants it to covert to mobi format. How does this constitute piracy???

I never saw it so I have no clue. ...

[GoSharks]

Originally Posted by karunaji

Unless something was deleted from the original thread, the girl simply said that she got the djvu book from a friend and wants it to covert to mobi format. How does this constitute piracy???

No, she said she had received a scanned copy of a book.... The book is not in the public domain yet, so QED = pirated.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by GoSharks

No, she said she had received a scanned copy of a book.... The book is not in the public domain yet, so QED = pirated.

Well possibly, but Public Domain where? Some countries don't acknowledge copyright at all?

[GoSharks]

By the way, the original thread wasn't deleted, if you want to read it...
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=141913

[kennyc]

Ah, thanks.

[karunaji]

Originally Posted by GoSharks

Seriously?! Feeling a little downtrodden today?

In fact I am in a good spirit of talking.

It is not so much about MR closing the thread but about not being sold the book by western companies. You probably have no idea how Eastern European countries get discriminated by Amazon. Amazon UK shipping regions doesn't even include Latvia among European countries which means that the whole range of items can't be ordered for no reason. The Amazon's purchase of The Bookdepository was a hard hit because it shipped everything to Latvia freely.

[DiapDealer]

The book is John Gribbin - In Search of Shroedinger's Cat.

I have the book in question, it's not really very good. Basically, it's a "Quantum Mechanics for Dummies" that still left me feeling stupid (twenty-five years ago). But I can sure speak the lingo now.

[carld]

I think I still have it in a box here somewhere. I agree it's really not all that good, especially so many years later. There are more recent books out there available for free legal download, but so far they all seem to be pretty technical. I haven't found anything written at a popular science level yet.

[Stratogirl]

Good morning/evening people,

I have seen other threads in this forum where people discuss djvu files.
As I never heard of books being published in djvu format I thought that all these djvu files that people are talking about were scanned books. As no one cited any titles, they could all be books current on print.

Amazon seems to have a strange policy.
Many of the books that I would like to buy are not available for shipping to Romania. Even Kindle editions, which requires no "shipping".
Even the free public domain books in Kindle edition that are free to download in UK and US are sold for 0.99 to Romania residents.

@ kennyc:
Thanks for the sugestion on the djvu reader. I used WinDjvuReader to open the file. But what I would like is to convert it so that I can read on the Kindle and be able to increase the font size so that I can read without glasses.

I understand the book is very basic. But it's exactly what I need. It's not like I'm majoring in particle physics. I'm just doing a course on marketing and PR and was requested to write a paper on a subject that fascinates me. So it doesn't have to be highly technical. And this book is the only one that I could find on popular quantum physics (or Quantum Mechanics for Dummies as Diap put it :-)

[JeremyR]

It's not a bad book at all, it was one of my favorites in high school.

[AlexBell]

Originally Posted by odiakkoh

DRM on the other hand is a gray issue. It's not illegal everywhere.

And even if it was, let's remember that not so long ago it used to be illegal to teach a slave to read, or to assist the slave to escape. Indeed, it's still illegal for women to drive in some countries. Should these laws be followed?

[karunaji]

Originally Posted by Stratogirl

Even Kindle editions, which requires no "shipping". Even the free public domain books in Kindle edition that are free to download in UK and US are sold for 0.99 to Romania residents.

As discussed on MR elsewhere, there are ways how to pretend that you are a US person when buying e-books from Amazon. Just in case you didn't know about this option.

[OtterBooks]

Originally Posted by karunaji

So, a poor Romanian gets double slapped in face. Once by big companies that did not sell her a book she wanted to buy and a second time when she has put a lot of effort to convert this book into a readable format and asks for advice with Word formatting that by itself has nothing to do with piracy whatsoever.

And all this just because she was too honest to frankly tell the whole story. I feel your pain. And probably also your disappointment about western hypocrisy where you are clean as long as you talk in a certain indirect way avoiding secret keywords, even though everybody knows what's actually going on.

What do you think all those indirect talks about DRM removal tools that are not and will never be available on MR are? Not legally but as an encouragement of what? If your answer starts with a p, you have learned your lesson today.

Fair enough, but MobileRead has to cover its ass, and they err on the side of caution. A friendly moderator politely explained why. It wasn't personal.