Topic: What are you reading? (Read 152431 times)

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #625 on:** September 10, 2008, 10:16:24 AM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on September 10, 2008, 10:04:21 AM

Everything I've looked for that I want for the Kindle so far costs as much as, or more than buying a physical paperback of the book, which has me irked. I can find most of those books for less than $3.00 at a local used book store and actually have a physical book in my hands. Why should I pay $8.00 for something insubstantial, AND with DRM to boot?

I think that's the only thing holding this back as a brilliant idea, to be honest.

Yeah, I run into that a lot too. To be honest, I use the "next page" button on the left side more often, but I'm left handed, so I'm usually holding it in that hand.

That

oh, yeah, i've run into the cost issue with books i really want, but i dunno- i'm hoping that changes soon. it has to, right?

my biggest problem with the "next page" button seems to be when i'm trying to either put it back in its case or close the case. the actual reading i'm trying to do with my left hand, too, though i'm right-handed. just seems less likely to make mistakes that way.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #626 on:** September 10, 2008, 10:33:18 AM »

One would think it would have to change; I mean, one of the reasons Steve Jobs won't let the big music labels raise prices on iTunes is because if they go much past a buck a track, it's actually cheaper for people to just buy CDs, so from a sales perspective it doesn't make much sense to price electronic-only and DRMed media more than something of which you can buy physical media sans DRM.

Hopefully Amazon comes to that same conclusion soon. I mean, the Kindle is really neat, and I like using one, but if the books I want continue to be cheaper in physical paperback, that's how I'm going to be buying and reading them, going forward.

Phl4m3z · « **Reply #627 on:** September 10, 2008, 02:16:40 PM »

Quote from: bananaskittles on August 30, 2008, 11:09:42 PM

Finished War and Peace by Dostoyevsky... Shut up im a teenage girl! And I liked it, I don't care what anybody says, I was happy with this happy ending, which is weird because I prefer tragedies... which might be why I'm in love with Shakespeare and am carrying his unborn child.

Hey I too just finished War and Peace by Dostoyevsky not too long ago! I'm a teenage guy and even I enjoyed it. The end was SO amazing omg. So now I am reading the next book in the series, New Moon =]

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #628 on:** September 10, 2008, 03:07:14 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on September 10, 2008, 10:33:18 AM

One would think it would have to change; I mean, one of the reasons Steve Jobs won't let the big music labels raise prices on iTunes is because if they go much past a buck a track, it's actually cheaper for people to just buy CDs, so from a sales perspective it doesn't make much sense to price electronic-only and DRMed media more than something of which you can buy physical media sans DRM.

Hopefully Amazon comes to that same conclusion soon. I mean, the Kindle is really neat, and I like using one, but if the books I want continue to be cheaper in physical paperback, that's how I'm going to be buying and reading them, going forward.

Demo, darling- you know of my acronym-knowing deficiency.. i ignored it the first time, but now i must ask: DRM?

it's a stupid question, i'm sure, but i can't figure it out!

Demosthenes · « **Reply #629 on:** September 10, 2008, 03:34:04 PM »

DRM = Digital Rights Management, i.e., anti-consumer measures to make it difficult for you to enjoy the product for which you paid legitimate money, while doing essentially nothing to stop less scrupulous individuals from widespread piracy of said product.

Suppose you have a Kindle and purchase a bunch of books for it. Being smart, in a modern, electronic-age sense, you back up your books on a computer of some kind.

Then, you drop your Kindle one day and fuxx0r it. Oh well, you think, and buy a new one.

None of those books you purchased for your original Kindle will work on the new one. Period.

DRM: that's entertainment!

Demosthenes · « **Reply #630 on:** September 10, 2008, 03:46:24 PM »

I should also point out that one of the biggest issues I have with DRM as a concept is that most executions of it make no allowances for Fair Use, and circumventing restrictions to enjoy Fair Use of a DRM-protected product is technically in violation of the DMCA, which I find deeply offensive. It essentially means that regular, honest people effectively have to break the law in order to use in reasonable ways products they legitimately purchased.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #631 on:** September 11, 2008, 12:07:51 AM »

I'm reading Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver and then several toddler psychology books. But I've been informed that I shoud probably be reading toddler legal books.

12AX7 · « **Reply #632 on:** September 11, 2008, 01:07:43 AM »

Reading pb's need-to-know list...

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #633 on:** September 11, 2008, 05:05:25 AM »

thanks, Demo.

TheJudge · « **Reply #634 on:** September 12, 2008, 08:18:54 AM »

I'm reading search engine optimization for dummies. And now I understadn what they called it that. II've read 3/4s of the book and only learned one thing so far. The rest is all great info, but I had already picked it up on the web. So I feel like a dummy for buying it.

I learned that you can submit a sitemap to ask.com via the search box.

ivan · « **Reply #635 on:** September 12, 2008, 10:48:49 AM »

I tried to finish The Divine Comedy.

I just didn't try hard enough.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #636 on:** September 12, 2008, 07:07:48 PM »

If you don't finish it, you're going to hell.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #637 on:** September 13, 2008, 10:25:02 AM »

and if you never start it?

Zwillinge · « **Reply #638 on:** September 15, 2008, 08:04:20 AM »

I'm going to start reading Darren Shan's Death's Shadows!

According to his cover he's the Number One Master of Horror, doncha know?

robotic_fowl · « **Reply #639 on:** October 11, 2008, 08:23:08 PM »

I'm reading Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. It is amazing/disturbing/addictive. Its so interesting that I cant do any actual work with it for my class. I am solely focused on the story.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #640 on:** October 13, 2008, 08:56:35 AM »

I just started readening this, on which Roman Polanski based The Ninth Gate.

Just as a point of information, it's not pronounced "DUMBASS".

xolik · « **Reply #641 on:** October 20, 2008, 03:29:53 PM »

Friedrich Hayek - "The Road to Serfdom"

It's an interesting read to say the least. I just started it last night, but looking forward to finishing it.

BizB · « **Reply #642 on:** October 20, 2008, 09:04:03 PM »

For the first time in a couple of years, I'm doing some recreational reading. Right now I've got...

Mort
The Colour of Magic
The Light Fantastic
The Prince and the Pauper

Scheherazade · « **Reply #643 on:** November 14, 2008, 09:17:00 PM »

I'm currently reading:

Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

Zwillinge · « **Reply #644 on:** November 19, 2008, 02:16:37 PM »

I just finished Darren Shan's Wolf Island.
Last time I was here, I was reading his previous book

Am going to start reading The World According to Garp or The Vampire Lestat!

Demosthenes · « **Reply #645 on:** November 19, 2008, 03:59:54 PM »

Tolkien's "The Silmarillion".

kanca mosan · « **Reply #646 on:** November 19, 2008, 04:16:06 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on November 19, 2008, 03:59:54 PM

Tolkien's "The Silmarillion".

Does it live up to the Lord of the Rings?

Joe Sixpack · « **Reply #647 on:** November 19, 2008, 04:25:30 PM »

The Silmarillion is like the Bible, but with elves instead of all the Jews.

kanca mosan · « **Reply #648 on:** November 19, 2008, 04:43:44 PM »

Quote from: Joe Sixpack on November 19, 2008, 04:25:30 PM

The Silmarillion is like the Bible, but with elves instead of all the Jews.

Seriously? I am totally uninformed.

Joe Sixpack · « **Reply #649 on:** December 01, 2008, 10:45:45 AM »

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