your headline of the day.

[annlarimer]

"Amazon turns 1984 into unbook"

--avclub.com on the Kindle/1984 amazonfail
http://www.avclub.com/articles/amazon-turns-1984-into-unbook,30572/

Comments

[nitasee]

Scary.

And I've been seriously thinking about buying a Kindle. Like, maybe this week.

[annlarimer]

Unless you have a specific need for it, I'd wait and see how the upcoming Apple tablet thingie compares. Though I doubt their policies on licensed material would be any different, considering what iTunes is like.

[kosher_jenny]

Someone in the metafilter thread linked to this upcoming eInk reader, which is supposedly DRM-free and has slot for an SD card and has wireless.

Apple is making a tablet computer?

[annlarimer]

That's the rumor. Of course, Apple likes to start their own rumors, so when whatever it is comes out, it may instead be a cybernetic service dog with a pilot's license and MP3 player.

[wolfy_writing]

See, what I could do with right now would be a cybernetic service dog that could drive. The pilot's license would be a bonus, of course, but the important parts are the driving and the being cybernetic.