02-16-2014, 11:41 AM | #91 | |
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Its best to always be POSITIVE at any age and enjoy each day to the fullest. If one still has sight, eBooks can make everyone's day a great experience. Of course, physical strength declines as we age. I can no longer carry a 100 pound backpack. Remember, its not the days we have left which count, but what we make of each day counts for EVERYTHING. Reading history eBooks can place us in the shoes of every participant in every conflict down through all the ages. Last edited by sirmaru; 02-16-2014 at 11:52 AM. |
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02-17-2014, 06:25 AM | #92 | |
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This allows for time shifting, place shifting, and format shifting, but discourages sharing. I think this is a very reasonable implementation of fair use. |
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02-17-2014, 11:15 AM | #93 | |
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The possibility a current ebook format not being around in 20 years in not going to affect your purchasing habits the way it would mine. |
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02-18-2014, 12:55 AM | #94 | |
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I agree with you, but twenty years ago I couldn't possibly predict that today I would do most of my reading on a small device that holds thousands of books, has a lit, non-flickering touch screen () and that needs to be recharged only once every few weeks, and that I can load up with new books (that I bought from a store thousands of miles away and that were delivered instantaneously) wirelessly in nearly no time at all. That was something straight out of a scifi novel. Twenty years is a long time (which feels shorter the older you get), and chances are that our reading habits in two decades will be quite different from what they are now, perhaps in yet unimaginable ways. (I also had a lot of "stuff" twenty years ago that was very important to me and that I collected and organized, and thought I would keep forever -- until it eventually was deleted or thrown out, but that's a different topic, perhaps.) But there will be books, and there won't be a shortage of stuff to read. Perhaps that is all that really matters. |
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02-18-2014, 08:31 AM | #95 | |
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I'm going to stick to paper for the majority of my purchases. |
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02-18-2014, 10:36 AM | #96 |
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The latest Consumer Electronics Show had a toy helicopter run with BRAIN WAVE POWER through a cuff wrapped on one's head.
In 20 years we may be ABSORBING books from brain devices and reading with our eyes may be totally unnecessary. Our eBooks and stored collections of today may be like the Commodore PC and /or the TRS 80 of 1978- and all their related files and software. Our large collections of DRM stripped eBooks will be like papyrus books - so much dust without any value. See this book: http://www.amazon.com/Future-Mind-Sc...re+of+the+mind The other reason NOT to collect eBook files is that in 40 years most of us here today will be DEAD. I still remember folks in 1930 collecting 78 RPM's for the miracle of that year: the RCA VICTROLA. All those 78 RPM's and the Victrolas are DUST today and ALL the collectors I knew then are all gone and forgotten. Today I stream my music from a PC to a radio in another room. In 1930 no one would have believed that would ever be possible. Even Sci-Fi books then did not IMAGINE it. Last edited by sirmaru; 02-18-2014 at 10:47 AM. |
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And 40 years is 40 years; I'm more concerned with my ebooks still being readable 5-15 years from now, which isn't at all guaranteed when they're DRM-infested. (Other than the watermarked ebooks / books protected by social DRM, that is, which inhibits casual sharing but allows backing up and converting to any other format, so I have no need to remove DRM protection from such books. Sadly that's just the Harry Potter books and all my Estonian ebooks.) Sure, a lot can happen in 20 years - probably also things we can't yet imagine. But reading text, with eyes, from a visible medium of some sort, is probably going to stick around as long as I do, and again, unlike collecting various physical items, making sure one has a readable collection of ebooks is not particularly time- or space-consuming and if not needed any longer, can always be deleted with no trouble. In the meantime, I'll have a lot of books to read. |
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I don't know whether or not science fiction writers in 1930 could imagine music on demand similar to streaming. I imagine someone could find a story featuring similar technology. But neither the existence of such technology nor the alleged failure to imagine this technology doesn't in any way invalidate making backups. We can still listen to backups on MP3 of recordings that were previously recorded on 78, but only if they were backed up. We can read the the Iliad, Sophocles, Plato or the Bible only because people backed them up. There exists no complete recording of the first Super Bowl, it wasn't preserved. There are episodes of Doctor Who that only exist because people made private recordings. You might consider these to be unimportant. But just because it is unimportant to you doesn't mean it isn't important to others. |
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This thread has made me laugh, I wonder if it would have ever made it into the bible if god had given Moses the tem commandment and added oh by the way throw them away in a few years cos they will be outdated, isn't the message important not the medium.
There are lots of Sci fi books from my youth that I wish I had kept. every ebook I own is backed up and will be kept, even the ones I don't think I will ever read again. Plus every Cd I have ever bought, Currently over 1300 is backed up has mp3. If someone said to me I could no longer back things up I would simply not buy. |
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Lord Amazon IS our Backup in the Sky. We need no other since Amazon will outlive all of us.
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Other major retailers have bitten the dust before. Many of the major chains whose stores adored the city streets of our youth have vanished completely. What make you think Amazon is immune?
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02-18-2014, 05:00 PM | #102 |
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If you find that an acceptable backup, that's fine. However, that is not a compelling reason that others should not maintain our their backups. I use Amazon, and don't plan on switching, but should I choose to do so, I see no compelling reason that I should not be able to take by books to a new reader if I were to switch. I paid for the books.
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I really hope it is, since there is no way anyone can possibly say this for real with such assurance, speaking to numerous individuals who can reasonably be expected to live for another 60-80 years. |
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Amazon reserves the right to delete the files in their cloud as well as their devices. Even if it will outlive all of us that doesn't mean that they would keep your backup.
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