[PRCo] Re: A Great Brussels Museum Video

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Yes, it seems to be a license to use, but you have it as long as your device
works.  This is fine with me because it eliminates clutter...I don't want to
keep everything I read, and now I don't have the disposal problem.  If I
want a keeper, I buy the real thing.

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Derrick
Brashear
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 11:50 AM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: A Great Brussels Museum Video

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!