Comments by "Pob" (@goodlookinouthomie1757) on "Kindle has a big problem, so I'm leaving it behind." video.

  1. ​ @judithgockel1001  Heartbreaking. I have a decent collection of books myself and I'd hate to lose them. Books have a soul and I love getting an old one and finding a message from someone who has given it as a gift. Imagining where it has been for the last 60 or 100 years and who has read it before me. I'll never buy a Kindle until I'm infirm on my deathbed and can't reach the bookshelf.
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  2. I agree, not at scale. However, I am a benign communist dictator in my own house.
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  3. And we end up with car manufacturers trying to sell you heated seats as a subscription.
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  4. What they should be forced to do is, in the event of the removal of any content from their service, provide those who have purchased said content a downloadable copy in a universally compatible format such as pdf or mp3.
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  5. The issue is that the big "BUY" button is misleading.
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  6. eBay is a big evil corp, but honestly they are fantastic for used books. And they are dirt cheap. I predict a massive revival of old books sometime in the future, just as all the publishers stop printing them, so get collecting now!
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  7. They also started putting trigger warnings and anti-racist lectures at the beginning of some books. To put it into context for a "modern audience" 🤮
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  8. You can keep it 100% ethnical by paying your money and then quite rightly making a backup copy of whatever you bought. It's basically an essential life-lesson that everyone should know by now.
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  9. Sooner or later, digital currency will dictate which books you're even allowed to buy.
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  10.  @Chek420  It depends how you use it, sure. But everyone wants it nonetheless. Just like the One Ring. Everyone thinks the way they would use it will be for a good cause.
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  11. There is also something symbolic about reading a paper book in 2024. You are actively rejecting the soulless malaise of modernity. A book has a soul, especially if you buy old, pre-owned.
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  12.  @lanehartwell  Yes that has really started to piss me off too. Having said that, I'm old school from the days when we used to go make a cup of tea during the ad break, which is what I do. So I am absolutely disconnected from the woke programming in most of them, which is half the purpose of ads these days.
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  13. I hope you learned your lesson and are now torrenting all your books as any conscientious reader should do.
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  14.  @CP-pt1ot  When I say "value free", all I mean is that dictatorship not is necessarily either good or bad. It is, alas, most often the latter.
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  15.  @Chek420  Everyone wants money and power.
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  16.  @CP-pt1ot  The term "dictator" is a value free description of a leader who has absolute power. In my own family, I care equally for everyone and ensure that resources are distributed to each according to their need - and that everyone contributes according to their means. In many ways, such benign dictatorship would be the ideal leadership for any society. Imagine an all powerful leader who, above all else, loves their people. Sadly, one can only imagine.
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  17. I think the point is that somewhere buried deep in the EULA it says that when you click "Buy" you agree that you are in fact just paying to access the license.
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  18. I might as well "lease" them from a file sharing site.
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  19.  @Ssaidak  Well, it's conceivable that new books might be written in the future and a few of them might even be worth reading.
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  20.  @KarMa-ws3ll  Yes that is pretty much how it always goes. You are in fact only leasing the license, even if the giant orange button says "BUY THIS BOOK". It's all there clearly on page 1147 of the EULA if you take the time to scroll down to it in the much-too-small text box they provide for you at the point of sale.
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  21. Nice try. If you download the EULA and scroll down to page 483, you'll see that by clicking "Buy" you agree that you do not actually own the content and Amazon can withdraw it at will for any reason, without having to tell you the reason.
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  22. Really? Amazon are pretty powerful but I'd like to see them reach through the ether and delete my leather bound Folio edition of Mein Kampfe from back in the day when respectable publishers were happy to deal in controversial works.
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  23. You can keep it 100% ethical buy paying for the media you want and then pirating it in whatever way you see fit. Still legally a grey area but Saint Peter will handwave that one through.
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  24. You're joking...I got something about an interracial hipster couple booking a vacation.
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