Book vs E-book
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- GeorgesII
Ciao tutti,
apparently when you die your ebook and other programs you've worked so hard to buy, die with you.
You can give your e-reader or tablet to a friend but the apps and books are non transferable,personally, I'll keep buying books because if there's one thing I want to leave to my son is a library full of books.
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- kalkal0
This is a huge thing that I guess they didn't even consider. Or maybe they did and realised that they could make more profit this way.
- uan0
why would they need to know you died anyway...just don't tell.
- inteliboy0
I was reading a book the other day and glanced at the upper right of the page to check the time. Omg lolz thx bye. True story.
- ItalianStallion0
Also... if you are cold you can always burn your books to warm.
- If you line your walls with books you won't be cold.melq
- Good tip: +1ItalianStallion
- formed0
Huh, never considered that either. I guess that's the trade off. I have my Amazon book on my iPad, iPhone and iPod. Some great convenience there, as I only want to bring one with me at different times (I love reading/watching at the gym, but only want to bring my iPod).
Considering how many piles of books I have in my garage, that surely no one will ever look at (and they were super pricey, thousands and thousands, all in impeccable condition), I guess it isn't a big deal.
Still, though, it seems like another one of these stupid "you are licensing the usage, not actually buying the book".
Is Apple different? They certainly gouge you on price (same books I got were 30-40% more on iTunes)
- jagara0
You can't put ebooks on shelves. Therefore, you can't showcase your intellectuality to everybody with ebooks. Casually leaving your Kindle lying around is not the same...
IMO, paper books won't disappear in the near future precisely because of this. Nothing shows "I'm smart" more than a wall packed with literature.
You can pretend that you (or you may actually -) like the smell of old books, the feel of them, the fact that they get worn and stained from use, that they gain a personality of their own and stuff. And then use this to impress your peers score with that brainy chick (ah, cynicism...).
Not possible with ebooks.
- Nathan_Adams0
But do you want to leave every single book you read to your kids, or just the good ones? In which case, build up a good physical library worth handing down, and use get eBook versions of everything else.
- who says my taste will be similar to his? it's not like I appreciate the book my dad used to read, but at least I got to try themGeorgesII
- GeorgesII0
I do agree ebook are practical,
but one thing everyone seems to be missing is that tecnology goes forward,
immagine having to search for hours for a legacy program that could read the epub format that was going on in 2012 or a substitute battery for your kindle generation 1,
it's hard enough finding a vhs player these days,
if you can't physically transfer the books from a storage to another how are you supposed to pass it if the device is broken, malfunctioning or the owner passed away and you don't have the password to enter his account- Software is different from hardware Georges...ItalianStallion
- really, tell me how are you going to pass something that doesn't exist anymore, do you think the tech will be the same in 20 years?GeorgesII
- jagara0
Isn't there some way of just jailbreaking (or whatever it's called with ebookreaders) the damn thing, and extract the books?
Jeez, this is why i don't own an Ipod. My Creative Zen mp3 player doesn't give a shit about DRM. It's basically USB stick with a bonus mp3 player functionality. And that freedom of use is considerably more important to me than sleek (granted, gorgeous) usability and design.
You bought the fucking ebook. You own it. You should be able to pass it on, like any other thing you bought.
- Oh, and i buy MY music (most of the time). On anything but Itunes...
jagara
- Oh, and i buy MY music (most of the time). On anything but Itunes...
- bjladams0
i just don't understand why ebooks are so expensive. i live close to a used book store, and can find most of the same titles that are $10-$15 online for $0.85 paperback.
- animatedgif0
"this is why i don't own an Ipod. My Creative Zen mp3 player doesn't give a shit about DRM. It's basically USB stick with a bonus mp3 player functionality"
> 2012
> Using an MP3 player without a web browserFUCKING LOL
- "this is why I don't own an Ipod. Because I still have my walkman." True story.notverycontrary
- ernexbcn0
What a tragedy.
- jagara0
@animatedgif fucking LOL yourself. i own an Android smartphone, it has a music player build in (amazingly!). Listening drains the battery (especially if you're using decent headphones), so i have to charge it all the time. The jack connector will quickly get worn and loose (and will malfunction) from switching back and forth between headset and the headphones (and from dis- and reconnecting both for when you don't listen to music, and just want it to be a phone that fits in your pocket).
>2012
>Being a QBN douchebag- And this goes for Iphones as well.jagara
- Don't have any of those problems with my iPhone. Learn to be less clumsy maybe?animatedgif
- Whatever. I just like separate devices for this, mkay? ;)jagara
- jagara0
Considering buying this, out of spite: https://www.johnsphones.com/eu/e…
- Mr_Mxyzptlk0
Or you could just tell your son the password for your fucking account.
- bananana0
I was running into a SORT of similar issue.
My dad and I share books all the time, but now that we both have ipads, we wanted to figure out a way to share our iBooks too.
For awhile, we shared username/passwords and I would just log in to his account to download his books (and vice versa). But since I updated ibooks, it keeps giving me this "error" that if I download from his account, I won't be able to download anything else for 90 days?!??
Anyone know anything about this?- idk if this means just books, or apps too...so dumb.bananana
- sherm0
the e books on the amazon platform is probably always going to be there and i'm sure they will always have a way for you to consume it be it a iPhone gen whatever or kindle whatever.
- ********0
what about teh trees
- randommail0
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”
That's Steve Jobs on e-books. The percentage he states probably has grown since he said that.
(And no, the iPad is NOT an e-book reader. It's a computer.)
And I absolutely agree. Print or electronic, long-form writing is simply not popular with younger generations. Unless you're retarded and count the Twilight books.
So thank god for the Baby Boomer generation. Hopefully publishers and distributors like Amazon will sort things out before that generation is dead.