ilweran on 22/10/2009 at 12:44
I've been using the Stanza app on my iPod Touch to read ebooks and have gone from being slightly dubious about the idea to moderately enthusiastic. The only things really holding me back from getting a dedicated ebook reader is the price of ebooks and concerns over DRM.
june gloom on 22/10/2009 at 13:08
Quote Posted by the_grip
dethtoll you seem to have the crude pieces necessary to build the next Theodore Kaczynski
I love TTLG. I say TV comedy isn't funny and I get accused of only laughing at the Holocaust. I say ebooks are inferior to actual books and I get (albeit implicitly) accused of being the next Unabomber. Go fall under a bus please.
Matthew on 22/10/2009 at 13:31
Quote Posted by ilweran
the price of ebooks
Yes, a lot are quite pricey. At the risk of sounding like a Fictionwise shill, I give them business because they give you store credit with a lot of purchases and you can pay a yearly fee to get better percentage reductions off every book you buy. They do 100% rebates on the first week of sale and a lot of weekend deals too.
the_grip on 22/10/2009 at 15:14
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I love TTLG. I say TV comedy isn't funny and I get accused of only laughing at the Holocaust. I say ebooks are inferior to actual books and I get (albeit implicitly) accused of being the next Unabomber. Go fall under a bus please.
You know I'm just flipping you shit, and you know that the only things you find funny are Nazi atrocities, am i rite
;)
Rug Burn Junky on 22/10/2009 at 15:32
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I get (albeit implicitly) accused of being the next Unabomber.
Don't worry, nobody believed that anyway.
After all, Theodore Kaczynski was a genius intellectual prodigy and you're... well, you're dethtoll.
Trance on 22/10/2009 at 15:32
'Nuff said.
gunsmoke on 22/10/2009 at 15:48
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Since I'm morally and philosophically opposed to the very
idea of Kindle and its ilk, I have never and will never use one, so someone tell me what happens if your Kindle or other e-reader breaks? Do you have to buy all those books all over again thanks to DRM?
Or, say, suppose the company that sold you the e-reader (
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html?_r=1) decided they didn't want you reading that book?
Fuck ebooks. Sure, it's a lifestyle thing, but books are low-tech and low-cost. By reading an actual book, you don't need to spend hundreds of dollars you don't really have on a glorified PDA. I hope this shit never achieves mass popularity, or I'll probably end up in jail for murdering someone reading Twilight on their Kindle while yelling at the Starbuck's cashier for fucking up their latte.
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I love TTLG. I say TV comedy isn't funny and I get accused of only laughing at the Holocaust. I say ebooks are inferior to actual books and I get (albeit implicitly) accused of being the next Unabomber. Go fall under a bus please.
To be fair, I think you went a bit further than stating that the kindle is simply 'inferior' to the printed/written word. The Unabomber statement was also unnecessary, I think there are better ways of getting both your opinions out there without death threats and pointing out character traits that resemble mass murdererers. We are, after all, only discussing a freaking e-book reader after all. It isn't as if this thing should be striking nerves. Jus' sayin' :erg:
Stitch on 22/10/2009 at 16:04
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I love TTLG. I say TV comedy isn't funny and I get accused of only laughing at the Holocaust. I say ebooks are inferior to actual books and I get (albeit implicitly) accused of being the next Unabomber. Go fall under a bus please.
How indeed could TTLG so overreact to your evenhanded and openminded analysis of the pros and cons of e-readers?
ilweran on 22/10/2009 at 16:44
Quote Posted by Matthew
Yes, a lot are quite pricey. At the risk of sounding like a Fictionwise shill, I give them business because they give you store credit with a lot of purchases and you can pay a yearly fee to get better percentage reductions off every book you buy. They do 100% rebates on the first week of sale and a lot of weekend deals too.
I did notice that with the Fictionwise Stanza store, but the specific books I was considering getting I could get for roughly the same price from Amazon Marketplace and for me a 'real' copy will always win out over a digital copy if they're around the same price.
Although, considering the space problem I'm having with books - we bought our house at the end of last year and we still have piles of books at my parents house - I may change my mind.
june gloom on 22/10/2009 at 16:46
Quote Posted by Stitch
How indeed could TTLG so overreact to your evenhanded and openminded analysis of the pros and cons of e-readers?
I realize you're being sarcastic but I fail to see how hatred of e-readers somehow translates to technophobia.
