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The irony here is that one of the books remotely deleted from many users' kindle readers was 1984 by George Orwell. LOL.In an ironic twist, one of the titles in question was Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 - the book that introduced the concept of Big Brother. The story, considered a modern classic, has become synonymous with political spin and remote surveillance - and many Kindle owners could not help but see the juxtaposition as amusing.
"Sounds ironically like Big Brother is monitoring our Kindle content," said one user.
Yup. Plus, there are a number of books I would never buy this way simply because they are identical in cost to the hard copy, which is stupid. I'm not a kindle fan. As a researcher, I prefer real books, but would try a Sony reader if I gave it a try.
So Amazon.com - Take a hike. If I ever receive a Kindle as a present, I promise to turn it into Kindling. :mrgreen:
Article is here.
And this is where we start to see if people will begin blaming Amazon or the publishing industry, a la Apple versus the RIAA regarding DRM.
I enjoy ebooks. I have more than 30,000 books in various formats, and I use a tablet computer to read them. My tablet computer has a much larger screen than lame e-book readers, more than 6 times the size, you can use it to read about any format, and you can download ebooks at just about any torrent site, and you can also access the internet and use it like you would any other computer. I got a very good tablet computer, which includes wireless that I used to connect to my home network, on Ebay for $270.00.
Dedicated Ebook readers are simply a huge rip off, and a waste of money. Not only that, but Amazon.com has a Napoleon complex, so screw them.
I don't blame Amazon. I blame the users who bought their crappy product without researching it first. LOL.
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