While I find my Kindle a great device to read books on, it's important to separate the Kindle marketplace from the hardware. If your family members have to buy DRM laden books, show them how to strip it off. Show them where to get non-DRM'ed books as well. They can manage / upload their collection with Calibre or just copy the books to their Kindle's Documents folder. Show them how to archive off a copy (sans DRM) with their pictures and music. If you can show them how to take control of what they've paid for, they can decide weather they want Amazon making this call for them. Unfortunately, you can't make them make the "right" decision.
From that standpoint, the line between indoctrination and education may well be as fuzzy as the line between a cult and an upstanding religion. The difference in this case is that while I (probably) want my child to be a productive and successful member of society, any outside organizations (governmental, business or religious) will likely have an agenda of much narrower scope and of benefit to those organizations rather than the child.
"And there will be enough food for everyone" that can afford to buy it. FTFY Give the Monsantos of the world enough leeway and it may become difficult to legally grow your own. There are already cases of farmers being sued (successfully) by Monsanto because GM seed contaminated their non-GM seed and the farmer didn't have licensing.
Maybe this education could happen at home?
Here in the US we seem to address the issue of teenagers and sex by ignoring it as if that will make this "problem" go away. Strangely, this course of action does not succeed and we end up with teenagers making very important decisions possessing only the information they get from movies, the Internet and their peers. Imagine if we all learned how to drive by watching auto chase scenes in movies! However we address this problem, I'm not sure an institutionally mandated "solution" is the right way to go.
Tagging works fine, but is generally useless once you leave the program you tagged with. For example, I have my HHGTTG folder located under Douglas Adams. Weather I'm hitting the network share from a Mac, PC, iPad, or Fire, regardless what program I'm browsing with, I always know exactly where to find the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Now if I have all my other (thousands) of ebooks in a single folder I need to search to find anything and forget browsing by author entirely. Tags are great if you have the time and energy, but everything / everyone knows what to do with a hierarchally organized directory structure. Note that they are not not mutually exclusive, so if it works for you use both!
I can think of three possibilities here:
You read lots of BIG picture books.
You have your OS installed on a small SD card and can't spare the space.
The books you read are so large that the text runs to multiple gigs per book and you are working off a small SSD.
The problem you're referencing was solved in the 90s. This design concept has been implemented in much more mainstream programs (iPhoto) and the world seems to be turning just fine so far.
Sounds like you need to set up a workflow. Mine is to strip any DRM off a book and load it into Calibre. From there it gets its metadata edited / retrieved as needed and then it's sent to my Kindle via USB. The book is then saved to disk in both the original and.epub formats in a "stuff I've loaded on the Kindle" repository. Everything's local to my network, bog boring standard and trivially available for me to do whatever I want with it. From where I'm sitting, the technical limitations of ebooks are no greater than the problems we used to get from music files. Check out the news, we've got bigger fish to fry!
If people would just stop complaining about potholes and put their effort into dodging them, we wouldn't have to repair our roads. We can all do that!
Seriously, there's gotta be a line between acceptable (signs, TV commercials) and unacceptable (TV commercials playing on your windshield while you drive) levels of intrusiveness for advertising. That the ads can be defeated is not the point. That maybe we shouldn't have to do so in the first place is.
I think there's more difference in these devices than you're taking into account here. While my iPad3 has a much prettier display than my Paperwhite, the backlight at the lowest setting is still blazing bright on the iPad. The iPad is waaay too big to be comfortable reading in bed and it's too heavy to hold up for an extended period of time. I get tired of turning Do Not Disturb mode on and off but if I don't toggle it I get notified every damm time CNN thinks something noteworthy comes up or I get an email. Even with all this I wouldn't have gotten a dedicated reader except for the power issue. If that iPad isn't plugged in when I go to bed I'll be in dire straits the next day. Even if tablet power improves tremendously, it'll have a tough time matching my Paperwhite's battery life of 2-3 weeks heavy reading with the backlight on.
If you're just looking at readers in the store a backlit screen looks superior in all ways. In practice where you really just care about reading the text of a book, well, YMMV.
I have a large(ish) collection of.mod,.s3m and.xm files. They were mostly made in the late 80s - 90s on Amiga and Ataris I think. Packed in there with them is a copy of "ModPlug Player" which somehow fires right up on my current Win8 machine. Assuming your reader program is packaged with your media you'll have a pretty good shot at keeping your data alive.
A few years ago, it was decided that putting the USA in the center of the map was showing a preference to, well, us Americans. Following the PC logic that anything pushing us up is pushing everyone else in the world down, we commenced making maps where we no longer appear to be the center of the world. This may not be universal, it was a national public school decision if I remember correctly.
If you set the volume just right, and were really fast with the play/record controls you could make it save your code to a regular tape drive. Just don't get your counter values messed up! I always wanted one of those drives to auto start / stop but somehow Dad never found that to be a priority. Sheesh, back in those days gosub / return was hot stuff. Good times.
You're right, and I apologize if I got a bit carried away and offended. I had just gotten done with fighting "collections" (read folders) on my Paperwhite. They go one deep, no nesting, so you have a choice of grouping by author or series name. Heaven forbid you want to put an HHGTTG folder under Douglas Adams!
You're right. If we never nested folders more than one deep, we'd never need to look for things in subfolders! They would just be right there in the one enormously long list. Then if we don't want to go through scroll hell, we can just do a search to find what we're looking for. So much more efficient!
You know guys, I think it's very likely that there are both really good and bad cops out there. The difference here is that the cops are supposed to be on the side of the upright citizen. They are civic enforcers given enormous powers by the state to be the "good guys". With these powers should come a responsibility to commit to a higher ideal of behavior. When officers fail in this endeavor they become state empowered (and often state protected) thugs. Wearing body armor. And a gun. And pepper spray. And a taser... It's great that there are good cops out there, but it's also a travesty that we have plenty of bad ones as well. Just because some do what they should does not excuse the actions of those who do not.
Really??? The gist of the video is "Don't talk to cops even if you're completely innocent of EVERYTHING". You should watch it again and pay attention this time. Speaking as someone who has had a car stolen (2x), broken into / entirely cleaned of anything valuable (1x), and damaged while someone attempted to break in (2x), the only difference between talking to the police and not talking to them is that their complete indifference to the situation and lack of any results made me more angry than I would have been otherwise. I sincerely believe there are good / helpful officers out there and maybe I just haven't been lucky, but there's probably a reason for all the anti-police sentiment out there. Just as I need to believe there are useful police out there in spite of my personal experiences, you would do well to consider other's viewpoints as well. To do otherwise would be foolish.
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For what modern degrees cost, if they don't actually help you do the job, why bother?
Getting past Human Resources so you can get a job.
While I find my Kindle a great device to read books on, it's important to separate the Kindle marketplace from the hardware. If your family members have to buy DRM laden books, show them how to strip it off. Show them where to get non-DRM'ed books as well. They can manage / upload their collection with Calibre or just copy the books to their Kindle's Documents folder. Show them how to archive off a copy (sans DRM) with their pictures and music.
If you can show them how to take control of what they've paid for, they can decide weather they want Amazon making this call for them. Unfortunately, you can't make them make the "right" decision.
This is why we need a +1 awesome mod. It should come with your other mod points but you only get one of them.
From that standpoint, the line between indoctrination and education may well be as fuzzy as the line between a cult and an upstanding religion. The difference in this case is that while I (probably) want my child to be a productive and successful member of society, any outside organizations (governmental, business or religious) will likely have an agenda of much narrower scope and of benefit to those organizations rather than the child.
"And there will be enough food for everyone" that can afford to buy it.
FTFY
Give the Monsantos of the world enough leeway and it may become difficult to legally grow your own. There are already cases of farmers being sued (successfully) by Monsanto because GM seed contaminated their non-GM seed and the farmer didn't have licensing.
Ouch! That was a burningly, explosively painful analogy!
/ducks and drives off quickly in Corvair...
Maybe this education could happen at home?
Here in the US we seem to address the issue of teenagers and sex by ignoring it as if that will make this "problem" go away. Strangely, this course of action does not succeed and we end up with teenagers making very important decisions possessing only the information they get from movies, the Internet and their peers. Imagine if we all learned how to drive by watching auto chase scenes in movies!
However we address this problem, I'm not sure an institutionally mandated "solution" is the right way to go.
Tagging works fine, but is generally useless once you leave the program you tagged with. For example, I have my HHGTTG folder located under Douglas Adams. Weather I'm hitting the network share from a Mac, PC, iPad, or Fire, regardless what program I'm browsing with, I always know exactly where to find the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Now if I have all my other (thousands) of ebooks in a single folder I need to search to find anything and forget browsing by author entirely. Tags are great if you have the time and energy, but everything / everyone knows what to do with a hierarchally organized directory structure. Note that they are not not mutually exclusive, so if it works for you use both!
I can think of three possibilities here:
You read lots of BIG picture books.
You have your OS installed on a small SD card and can't spare the space.
The books you read are so large that the text runs to multiple gigs per book and you are working off a small SSD.
The problem you're referencing was solved in the 90s. This design concept has been implemented in much more mainstream programs (iPhoto) and the world seems to be turning just fine so far.
He was using the handle "plover" but in real life he's actually Charles Dikkens spelled with two Ks, the well-known Dutch author.
Sounds like you need to set up a workflow. Mine is to strip any DRM off a book and load it into Calibre. From there it gets its metadata edited / retrieved as needed and then it's sent to my Kindle via USB. The book is then saved to disk in both the original and .epub formats in a "stuff I've loaded on the Kindle" repository. Everything's local to my network, bog boring standard and trivially available for me to do whatever I want with it. From where I'm sitting, the technical limitations of ebooks are no greater than the problems we used to get from music files. Check out the news, we've got bigger fish to fry!
If people would just stop complaining about potholes and put their effort into dodging them, we wouldn't have to repair our roads. We can all do that!
Seriously, there's gotta be a line between acceptable (signs, TV commercials) and unacceptable (TV commercials playing on your windshield while you drive) levels of intrusiveness for advertising. That the ads can be defeated is not the point. That maybe we shouldn't have to do so in the first place is.
erm, Netflix?
More like pot smoking the refridgerator sober.
Ok, I admit it. I have NO IDEA what the heck that's supposed to mean!
I think there's more difference in these devices than you're taking into account here.
While my iPad3 has a much prettier display than my Paperwhite, the backlight at the lowest setting is still blazing bright on the iPad.
The iPad is waaay too big to be comfortable reading in bed and it's too heavy to hold up for an extended period of time.
I get tired of turning Do Not Disturb mode on and off but if I don't toggle it I get notified every damm time CNN thinks something noteworthy comes up or I get an email.
Even with all this I wouldn't have gotten a dedicated reader except for the power issue. If that iPad isn't plugged in when I go to bed I'll be in dire straits the next day. Even if tablet power improves tremendously, it'll have a tough time matching my Paperwhite's battery life of 2-3 weeks heavy reading with the backlight on.
If you're just looking at readers in the store a backlit screen looks superior in all ways. In practice where you really just care about reading the text of a book, well, YMMV.
While my paperwhite has many shortcomings, being readable in the dark is not one of them.
I have a large(ish) collection of .mod, .s3m and .xm files. They were mostly made in the late 80s - 90s on Amiga and Ataris I think. Packed in there with them is a copy of "ModPlug Player" which somehow fires right up on my current Win8 machine. Assuming your reader program is packaged with your media you'll have a pretty good shot at keeping your data alive.
A few years ago, it was decided that putting the USA in the center of the map was showing a preference to, well, us Americans. Following the PC logic that anything pushing us up is pushing everyone else in the world down, we commenced making maps where we no longer appear to be the center of the world. This may not be universal, it was a national public school decision if I remember correctly.
Simple: ...
1. Create 3D map image.
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3. Prophet!
RDS field engaging...
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Wow! That's so awesome I think I'll take two of them!
If you set the volume just right, and were really fast with the play/record controls you could make it save your code to a regular tape drive. Just don't get your counter values messed up!
I always wanted one of those drives to auto start / stop but somehow Dad never found that to be a priority.
Sheesh, back in those days gosub / return was hot stuff. Good times.
You're right, and I apologize if I got a bit carried away and offended. I had just gotten done with fighting "collections" (read folders) on my Paperwhite. They go one deep, no nesting, so you have a choice of grouping by author or series name. Heaven forbid you want to put an HHGTTG folder under Douglas Adams!
You're right. If we never nested folders more than one deep, we'd never need to look for things in subfolders! They would just be right there in the one enormously long list. Then if we don't want to go through scroll hell, we can just do a search to find what we're looking for. So much more efficient!
You know guys, I think it's very likely that there are both really good and bad cops out there. The difference here is that the cops are supposed to be on the side of the upright citizen. They are civic enforcers given enormous powers by the state to be the "good guys". With these powers should come a responsibility to commit to a higher ideal of behavior. When officers fail in this endeavor they become state empowered (and often state protected) thugs. Wearing body armor. And a gun. And pepper spray. And a taser... It's great that there are good cops out there, but it's also a travesty that we have plenty of bad ones as well. Just because some do what they should does not excuse the actions of those who do not.
Really??? The gist of the video is "Don't talk to cops even if you're completely innocent of EVERYTHING". You should watch it again and pay attention this time.
Speaking as someone who has had a car stolen (2x), broken into / entirely cleaned of anything valuable (1x), and damaged while someone attempted to break in (2x), the only difference between talking to the police and not talking to them is that their complete indifference to the situation and lack of any results made me more angry than I would have been otherwise.
I sincerely believe there are good / helpful officers out there and maybe I just haven't been lucky, but there's probably a reason for all the anti-police sentiment out there. Just as I need to believe there are useful police out there in spite of my personal experiences, you would do well to consider other's viewpoints as well. To do otherwise would be foolish.