The joy of electronic books • Hacker News Board

anthropocentric wrote: post #10

Is there a legal way to sell used digital books or used digital music? Like some app where you identify the mp3's that you'd like to sell. The price is half of itunes. When a user buys it, the app "permanently destroys" (yeah, yeah, i know) your copy of the mp3 and transmits the mp3 to the buyer. Re-selling goods is a long-standing fixture of the economy. Doesn't it apply to digital goods too?

No, it doesn't apply to digital goods in general, it only applies to digital goods which have artificial scarcity due to their method of distribution.

Re: The joy of electronic books

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Post by Silentio » Mon, Jun 15, 2009, 3:18 AM UTC

drewcrawford wrote: post #3

Silentio wrote: post #2

The only problem with digital copies like this is that I can't underline. Maybe it's just the habit of underlining, but I can't read as well (academic reading) when I can't underline key points, specific words, and particularly interesting passages.

I've found Preview's (Mac; built in) annotate feature to be a great portable way to highlight inside PDFs.

I agree that Preview's annotate feature works well. Still, there something about the physical process of underlining words that helps me connect ideas together as I'm reading.