Comments | annlarimer: your headline of the day.

annlarimer

your headline of the day.

Jul 20, 2009 11:05

"Amazon turns 1984 into unbook"

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

headline of the day., #amazonfail #glitchmyass, orwell that ends well, books

Comments 10

ashenmote July 20 2009, 16:24:38 UTC

Oh, that's a good one.

nitasee July 20 2009, 18:06:05 UTC

Scary.

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

annlarimer July 20 2009, 18:19:44 UTC

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 July 21 2009, 03:21:42 UTC

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 July 21 2009, 13:50:37 UTC

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.

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random_nexus July 20 2009, 18:22:24 UTC

"I bought it, it's mine now, assclowns!" is my thinking. Do bookstores break into your house and take back books they don't have the right to sell anymore?

WTF? I say. WTF?

annlarimer July 20 2009, 18:56:33 UTC

That would be the reason to buy, y'know, actual books.

random_nexus July 20 2009, 19:16:34 UTC

Exactly.
I don't have any kindle or anything like that, but I sympathize with the ones who do and had their stuff yanked.
Me? I like the whole experience of a physical item in my hands, perhaps old-fashioned, but my preference, anyhoo.

Still... boogers! *grumble*

wolfy_writing July 20 2009, 19:09:38 UTC

Doubleplusungood!!! :(

Seriously, my dad keeps trying to talk me into buying a Kindle. And I keep trying to explain the problem.