[PRCo] Re: A Great Brussels Museum Video

[Derrick Brashear]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I used go there on purpose.  But not so much any more...Janis and I both
> acquired Kindles recently, since we don't want to lug two weeks' worth of
> books on an upcoming cruise.  If you don't have to have the physical book
> (which I do in some instances), the e-reader is much more convenient, and
> storage takes up a lot less of that bookshelf space!

In my case, iPad >> Kindle (because it can do other things). But the
backlight doesn't bother me for reading.
Also, I can swap out the SIM card and use the device for data in e.g.
the Czech Republic. Ask me how I know...

> And I don't have to endure the response from the clerk at Barnes & Noble
> when I'm looking for a book on Thomas Edison that "we don't stock that
> because people in Pittsburgh aren't interested in it."  The people of
> Pittsburgh weren't interested in the other five on my list that day, either,
> but Amazon.com was happy to sell them to me at a discount and download them
> to my device in under a minute each.

The death of "first sale doctrine" because of this, and the seeming
treatment of digital purchases
as a "license to use" rather than ownership, worry me.

Of course i am now wildly diverging from the list topic!