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Cleveland Public Library Readies E-book Downloads
rtphokie writes "C|Net is reporting that the Cleveland Public Library is making ebooks available. Sounds like the 1000 books in the system initially will feature more than just public domain titles including 'the latest from authors such as Michael Crichton, Clive Barker and Joyce Carol Oates.'" The article also mentions that "only a limited number of each eBook will be available, and after a preset number of days, the eBook will lock out the current reader so another patron can check it out." A good time to re-read The Right to Read.
Uhh... okay. Maybe you people don't understand the concept of a library. You check out a book, and *have* to return it by a certain date, or you get fined. This simply offers you the convienence of avoiding the car trip to the library. If you keep the book, this is called *stealing,* and the library will come after you, and charge you for the book. Of course, none of you fucking puerile, smelly, dirty, cum-guzzling GNU/Hippies seem to understand this, but that doesn't surprise me in the least.
Do you think authors work for free? I think not.
This is just another lame attempt by the GNU/Community to try and pass off stealing one's intellectual property as "freedom." I call bullshit on this.
---I should warn you that you will sound like a windows newb if you keep talking like that.
;-)
And I should warn you that you already sound like a stallmanist linux bigot.
---I dont want to flame you and this Is offtopic but here i go.
I really wanna flame you.. And I like trolling
---mIRC is a program to access the IRC network.
Nawww, Yer kiddin me..
---mIRC is also for windows.
No it aint, I'm runnin X and have mirc. No winderz either.
---By saying its on mIRC you are basically shouting to everyone that you use windows and dont know how IRC works.
By spouting this worthless drivel, you're claiming net.ghod status. Go get a life. At least he's chatting with people.
---I am not the type of person who wants to flame for this but you might wanna look into how the system works before some ass does flame you.
If you point your ass in the way, I'll "flame" it for ya.
---Also as you learn more about the many different IRC networks you will find that it is very possible to find the right content with very little BS.
It's called "trade" you dumbshit.
dumbfuck
Rhetorical question.