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Post by matwood »

judge2020 wrote: post #30
night-rider wrote: post #21

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> I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase! Without a DRM mechanism it can be easily shared on warez sites. They really don't want books easily disseminated DRM free on warez sites. Alongside this they can track what pages you read and even know how 'fast' you are at reading. Welcome to 1984.

> Alongside this they can track what pages you read and even know how 'fast' you are at reading. Does anyone do this? I don't see how it's relevant beyond "wow! you reading speed increased 5% this month" in emails from the Kindle service. Maybe they target ads for "read better and faster in 90 days" if you're in the 10th percentile on reading speed?

The probably track it to make sure you are not gaming the system. Kindle Unlimited pays out based on pages read.

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201541130

> A customer can read your eBook as many times as they like, but we will only pay you for the number of pages read the first time the customer reads them.

Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

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Post by askiiart »

areoform wrote: post #220
pilimi_anna wrote: post #103

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Holy shit! Did not see this coming, but glad we saved this collection just in time. (I'm Anna, the one who made the backup). We are working on hosting this collection, as well as saving other large collections. Please consider supporting us, donation details at http://pilimi.org (we'll set up a patreon-like system soon)

Thank you so much for your efforts! I have steadily become convinced that we should make a multi-billion year backup of all of humanity's knowledge. All of it. Something that, - is resilient (can survive a nuclear explosion) - requires no power - doesn't require software to read/reboot from - (theoretically) lasts for at least 1 billion years Copying from the Long Now Foundation's projects, I think we can achieve the…

To be useful after such a long period of time, we'd also need to include materials on learning the languages.

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Post by throwaway74829 »

midoridensha wrote: post #143
hutzlibu wrote: post #141

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"Some people are just destructive for some reason, and it's entirely from carelessness, not malice. " And then some people simply consider books as objects for use, and not sacred reliques to be touched only with glothes. (unless we are talking about historical books) I mean, books or rather the information in them is kind of sacred to me. But the physical objects are just paper, that can be printed out again, if it…

It sounds like you're one of those people who can't handle everyday objects without breaking them somehow. I'm not talking about treating things as extremely fragile, I'm just referring to being able to use and handle things without somehow destroying them in short order. The people who do this are just like you: they think it's normal and think everyone else is overly cautious, when in reality they're just a clumsy…

Yes. Realistically, I could put in the extra effort to be mindful of how I handle the things I own -- but I simply don't care enough.

If you lend me a paperback book, it's likely going to be dog-eared and written inside with pen; and the covers will almost certainly have creases all over. In my view, paperback books are cheap, mass-produced disposable goods that were meant to be thoughtlessly handled (e.g. reading at the beach).

If you lend me a KNIPEX plier wrench, it's likely going to be used as a hammer, for when I'm simply too lazy to go get one. It will be left out in the rain, completely uncovered. Why? Because I simply do not care. If it becomes rusted or visibly broken, I will buy a replacement -- but I will not go out of my way to treat material, unthinking, unfeeling objects with any respect or dignity.

I consider the necessity of most physical things we own an annoyance; and the responsibility of caring for them a self-imposed burden I have no interest in carrying.

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Post by prox »

hanniabu wrote: post #311
prox wrote: post #276

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Off world would help, no atmosphere on the moon for instance makes for less deterioration, and a cave system would shield it from radiation. On earth clay tablets have done a great job : we have tablets 6000 years old, so we know that works. That’s 60% of 10k already. Titanium seems expensive and might be melted down in time of need, like bronze has been often in the past. Clay tablets survived partly because it’s a…

> On earth clay tablets have done a great job The ones that survived

Yeah, but they didn’t even try preserving it! Lots were found in average storerooms and so on.

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Post by BirAdam »

ccine wrote: post #200

I have tried my best to skim through all the discussions and no one seems to have noticed the demand for zlibrary in third world countries. In a country like China, it is the only avenue for most researchers and students at the bottom to gain expertise. When you talk about classism, you should not ignore such groups.

In my experience, people in the USA don’t extend their moral virtues to foreign countries, and when they do it’s common for this to be done in an unequal fashion. Often, people will respond telling you that you’re guilty of “what-about-ism” despite you merely universalizing a value that they themselves claim to have. I’ve ceased trying to converse about moral virtues with my fellow Americans as a result. It’s every bit as unwelcome as talking money in the USA.

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Post by lxgr »

Normille wrote: post #168
lxgr wrote: post #105

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Not my experience at all. I regularly lend e-books from my city's public library, and they usually have hundreds of "copies" available for popular titles, and even for less popular or even niche titles I rarely have to wait more than one week. It is a bit ridiculous that "buying copies" and then imposing artificial scarcity on these is the best mechanism that libraries and publishers have figured out to compensate co…

>I regularly lend e-books from my city's public library... No. You 'borrow'. The library 'lends'

Ah, that one always gets me – my native language doesn't have the distinction. Thanks!

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Post by __rito__ »

5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #188
tarunmuvvala wrote: post #176

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Similar is the case from people who can't afford. They are not asking you to give it for free. What they want is that the information accessible at affordable prices. The current situation is an ABC book either cost $10-$20-$30 or they can get it pirated. there is no middle ground. People move to piracy due to lack of affordability and options.

Ah, the downvotes from the extremely privileged (most of whom do not even realize this). I am from one of those countries where we pretty much cannot afford "legal" content. In my shitty town the median salary is something like $300, at least half of which goes towards paying rent if you don't have your own house, while we're being asked to pay prices that were established for developed countries with median salaries…

The median price of a programming book in India is what I could buy lunch and dinner with for a month while in college. For one book.

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Post by burnished »

akie wrote: post #308
pmontra wrote: post #295

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> 6.7 million plates will probably weigh a lot. So off-world copies might need to use an alternative encoding scheme. For the Moon and Mars, carve them into stone there. You'll have to defend against meteor strikes so they'll be carved and stored deep underground. No idea about seismic activity on those bodies. For outer space, maybe it's pointless because finding, boarding, unloading an interstellar probe and sendin…

Not sure if serious or sarcasm.

What about that seemed sarcastic? It read as a practical solution to an unlikely problem.

Orbiting the sun seems like a pretty stellar solution to the whole "keep something close and visible but safe without maintenance" problem.

Plus, think of how exciting it would be for a future civilization to discover that an object orbiting the sun was not a lump of rock!

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