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By: Life of Farhan » And another thing about ebooks

Life of Farhan » And another thing about ebooks — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:42:38 +0000

[...] 22 Nov, 2007 Kindle’s clogging up the blogosphere and the airwaves right now. As I wrote, and N and Cathy commented, the other day it’s probably a crummy idea. But some people have been [...]

By: Cathy

Cathy — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:23:35 +0000

My idol Richard Stallman made it clear the evil implications of ebook:

http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/07/29/richard-stallman-takes-a-stand-against-ebooks-ebook-devices/

Our freedom to do the follow is restricted:

or instance, there is the freedom to borrow a book from the Public Library, and the freedom to sell a book to a used book store, and the freedom to lend a book to a friend, and the freedom to buy a book anonymously by paying cash, and there’s even the freedom to keep the book for years and read it as many times as you’d like, and pass it on, perhaps to your children, who might read it as many times as they like.

I hate ebook…

By: Farhan

Farhan — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:45:12 +0000

LOL, maybe in 100 years there will be Kindle historians… can’t see it though!

By: Natasja

Natasja — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:42:55 +0000

I can’t let this thing go… (comes with being a bookhistorian I think), this review was the best I’ve read so far:

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/11/the_kindle_doesnt_light_my_fir.html

By: Natasja

Natasja — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:50:11 +0000

PS just saw this after I posted my comment, which is much more eloquent than I am about this:
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/11/why_kindle_is_n.php

By: Natasja

Natasja — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:47:51 +0000

This thing is sooo going to tank (in terms of it being a big sales success)! You have to pay to read RSS feeds, it’s too big and it’s hideously ugly (honestly, WHAT were they thinking?).

To top it off: the technology doesn’t add features that a simple paperback book doesn’t already offer, for a lot less money. Unless they come up with something sexy and really cool, ebooks and ebook readers are not going to conquer the reading marketing anytime soon methinks.