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What you've just described is actually illegal. It's called bait and switch.It's what Amazon has done for the phone that Purple Lady ordered on Prime Day. They advertised one phone and sold another. This thread advertises a new and different Kindle, but the article has nothing to do with a new and different Kindle.
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Bait and switch is when a merchant advertises goods which they don't have at a cheap price, in order to inveigle you into buying something more expensive when you show up. It's a far, far reach to apply that to an enticing header and it's irresponsible to bandy about the word "illegal" when it's nothing of the kind. ETA: I quoted Jon's post in its entirety when I clicked on it. I'll note that this thread advertises nothing and it suggests a first Kindle, not a new and different one. Last edited by issybird; 08-03-2017 at 11:08 AM. Reason: To reflect a change in the quoted post. |
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The title says "First kind of Kindle?" That is a question, not a statement. Therefore, it is not a bait and switch. I will agree it is kind of misleading. A better title would have been "Was this the first Kindle? " Kindle meaning portable book storage not electronic device. |
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And still do. Check the link. And Star TrekNG PADDs are post-PC. Try the original series where Rand would bring Kirk clipboards to sign off and Spock's research brought up microfiche stills. Over time there have been all sorts of attempts to produce portable libraries. Edison proposed printing books on ultra-thin nickel sheets: 40,000 pages in a two-inch thick binding. http://blog.seattlepi.com/bookpatrol...le-ipad-combo/ Last edited by fjtorres; 08-03-2017 at 12:10 PM. |
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I mean, Kindle wasn't the first and it isn't even the best so why is it used as shorthand for e-book reading devices? It really, really irritates me but you don't see me ranting about it on a public forum. Oh, wait ... ![]() ( ![]() |
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Here we go. Here's the full title, for anyone who looks at post #1 and sees only a link and nothing else. (Or for members who read posts backwards - or upside down.)
![]() First kind of Kindle? Researchers at University of Leeds find what is thought to be first travel-sized library Personally, I find the full title to be so much more interesting than the title of this thread. But Hi-Ho and Yippety-Yo - that's just me! ![]() ![]() Last edited by Dr. Drib; 08-04-2017 at 07:01 AM. |
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As for the title of this thread? I suspect that Amazon is in the same situation as Kleenex in English speaking countries -- a trademark is in danger of becoming a generic term. Considering what was done to Bayer after the first world war and their trademark on aspirin was stripped (along with their trademark on a cough suppressant called heroin), I find it hard to find much sympathy for Kleenex or Amazon. Last edited by DNSB; 08-04-2017 at 04:06 PM. |
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I remember when we had the fiche listing of things like JES2, MVS 3.8, CICS builds, and of course when fixes were released new fiche would be supplied.
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There also the old spy tool: The Micro Dot"
We could put our library under a postage stamp, conceal it in the dot at the end of a handwritten message or inside a partially hollow coin and mail it or carry it across the oceans. |
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Not upside down, but plenty of weird formatting. And it's impossible to order books exactly as I want as I can with a shelf of real books. Or have two books open at once to compare, etc, etc. I'm still glad to have one, but they have plenty of compromises.
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I wonder if he wrote it on a typewriter? One thing though, physical media are more resistant to corruption from things like cosmic rays. I have some floppy disks from the 90s I dearly wish I could read. And a few 19th C books that are perfectly fine. The books in the case mentioned look quite legible after about 4 centuries. Last edited by AlanHK; 08-08-2017 at 04:45 AM. |
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...and the two ereaders still take up less room and weigh less than one hardcover book. Shari |
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He had a couple of short stories published before that but odds are he wrote it in the 70's. Very few authors were writing on computers before the IBM PC came out in 1981. (Niven and Pournelle are two that come to mind that go back to the Cromemco CP/M boxes.) |
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