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The zine scene's seen weak weeks, certainly, but the gritty ink stays distinct: a permanent link for those who think outside the precinct. It may wax and wane, but for any with an intention to mention the subversive soul, zines offer distinct impressions. I'd originally intended to simply argue that short form print never went anywhere and therefore had nowhere to return from, but I thought I'd take the opportunity t…
> A quarter-century ago, conventional wisdom held that ebooks, read on electronic devices, would replace books made of paper. Until publishers thought “huh, we can increase our margins AND increase our prices too for ebooks?!”
I've made the switch to ebooks.i haven't yet had a problem with pricing like you suggest, but I have been a little worried about my library of purchased books might one day disappear since they all use DRM, and I don't really own any of my books in any real sense of the word. Then again, even that doesn't worry me too much, since I almost never read a book twice anyway. I think the only book I've read more than once…
There are some books I absolutely buy (and I have a rather large library myself, entirely physical), but there are many cases where borrowing makes more sense.
Today I had a bizarre experience. I went to a library. I spent a good 40+ minutes browsing through the aisles offering a truly intriguing selection acquiring a stack of books along the way and one by one I put each book back 20 minutes before it closed. A few of them were about how economically alienated Millennials are and why. One book with a broken piggy bank on the cover blamed boomers. I mention this because I d…
> A quarter-century ago, conventional wisdom held that ebooks, read on electronic devices, would replace books made of paper. Until publishers thought “huh, we can increase our margins AND increase our prices too for ebooks?!”
I've made the switch to ebooks.i haven't yet had a problem with pricing like you suggest, but I have been a little worried about my library of purchased books might one day disappear since they all use DRM, and I don't really own any of my books in any real sense of the word. Then again, even that doesn't worry me too much, since I almost never read a book twice anyway. I think the only book I've read more than once…
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I've made the switch to ebooks.i haven't yet had a problem with pricing like you suggest, but I have been a little worried about my library of purchased books might one day disappear since they all use DRM, and I don't really own any of my books in any real sense of the word. Then again, even that doesn't worry me too much, since I almost never read a book twice anyway. I think the only book I've read more than once…
I'd argue that we never really "owned" books. Put aside the mundane physical object and assume that a book is a work of culture, authored by somebody else. What can "own" possibly mean in this context? You don't somehow commandeer its copyright by gaining an indefinite right to consult it. The words "own" and "buy" and "sell" are fundamentally ill-suited to abstract quantities such as knowledge and information and id…
This sounds unnecessarily reductive. By "own" I would mean that I can re-read the book again and again and again as many times as I want as long as I take good care of the book and prevent it from disintegrating.
But the DRM e-books can't be used like that. That was their point.
Today I had a bizarre experience. I went to a library. I spent a good 40+ minutes browsing through the aisles offering a truly intriguing selection acquiring a stack of books along the way and one by one I put each book back 20 minutes before it closed. A few of them were about how economically alienated Millennials are and why. One book with a broken piggy bank on the cover blamed boomers. I mention this because I d…
Not sure if the writing style is deliberate, but it was confusing to parse. Needs some editing by chat jippity.
Today I had a bizarre experience. I went to a library. I spent a good 40+ minutes browsing through the aisles offering a truly intriguing selection acquiring a stack of books along the way and one by one I put each book back 20 minutes before it closed. A few of them were about how economically alienated Millennials are and why. One book with a broken piggy bank on the cover blamed boomers. I mention this because I d…
So, you're praising a sort of cultured counterculture, and mourning it because you think it's gone away.
The zine scene's seen weak weeks, certainly, but the gritty ink stays distinct: a permanent link for those who think outside the precinct. It may wax and wane, but for any with an intention to mention the subversive soul, zines offer distinct impressions. I'd originally intended to simply argue that short form print never went anywhere and therefore had nowhere to return from, but I thought I'd take the opportunity t…
snap snap snap
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I've made the switch to ebooks.i haven't yet had a problem with pricing like you suggest, but I have been a little worried about my library of purchased books might one day disappear since they all use DRM, and I don't really own any of my books in any real sense of the word. Then again, even that doesn't worry me too much, since I almost never read a book twice anyway. I think the only book I've read more than once…
If you don't read a book multiple times, why not borrow from a public library (if such a thing exist in the country you live in)? Here in Sweden they are free, and you can even get them to loan a book from another library if they don't have it locally (though for physical books it will of course take a few days to get it delivered). Remote loans used to cist around 20 SEK (about 2 EUR), but is now also free since ear…
I am a creature of comfort after all!