Right. In the majority of cases, I do not care who the publisher of a book is, for some mainstream book. Whether MegaCorporation A or MegaCorporation B publishes Detective Novel C does not matter one iota to the person buying it, only that it is available.
Yep. In html, so anything can read it, save it, or whatever, if you would like to put it on your pda, print it, put it on your mp3 player, or whatever.
An older Linux distro and firefox version, no joy. It says upgrade to a later Flash version (which is the version I already have). So, another crap flash product. Still paranoid you might actually get some of the text??
It doesn't make much sense to me to make text, flash.
I disagree with the first part, my tech completely tech-clueless 60 year old next-door neighbour was using Limewire. Garden variety people my spousal unit worked with did movies (and even covers!). So anybody and everybody is, because it isn't very hard.
The second part is certainly true, though. Sell them for $40 and they are xmas presents only. At $4.99, you buy 'em whenever, even if average.
I am pretty sure the ACCC already ruled that region coding is bullshit, and you can circumvent it to your heart's desire, as it was purely about manipulation, and nothing with any actual useful purpose.
Suggested to me by a fellow Slashdot user was a Palm M500. Greyscale, can take a 64MB card (so at 200-300K file size that is quite a few books). This is the one I settled on. Small enough to carry around in my pocket, too, even in one of the aluminium protective cases.
If you just want to try out how you like a palm, you could pick up one of the old greyscale 2MB or 4MB models on ebay for next to nothing, to see how you like it. I ended up with one for $10 on the minimum bid, oh bloody hell, I won it, type deals. Probably a lot cheaper there. Then, you have spent not much, and still have a note taking/address book, etc. toy to play with.
If you only want to read periodically and not for hours or days at a time, a new color one where the batteries run out much more quickly would be fine, too. Depends what you are after, I think, but I have been happily using the M500 now. You can read it in any light, and has a backlight (which, of course, will drain the battery a lot faster) for those times you are waiting for a lift in the dark, or the spousal unit complains about the light being on, and you just want to read for another 20 minutes.
http://www.isfdb.org/
Apart from the very handy website, there is a nice MySQL database dump that is very easy to grab and use yourself. It helped me find some old novels that had read that I couldn't remember the name of, but knew when they were published. A few queries, and there you go.
Librarything is great. Tagging is very useful, especially now I am getting to the stage where it is hard to remember what I have read! Lifetime account is a great bargain, I think.
Maybe only the public domain like Gutenberg and others such as Baen would be readable after 20 years? Then people might not be very happy about the DRM variety.:)
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That will make people stop downloading music!
Oh, wait..
No.
It won't.
Duh.
Shut down internet radio = make less money, as those people are now paying you zero
Shut down internet radio = people download more songs in copyright infringing manner rather than listen to a net radio stream
Right. In the majority of cases, I do not care who the publisher of a book is, for some mainstream book. Whether MegaCorporation A or MegaCorporation B publishes Detective Novel C does not matter one iota to the person buying it, only that it is available.
Yep. In html, so anything can read it, save it, or whatever, if you would like to put it on your pda, print it, put it on your mp3 player, or whatever.
You know, pretty much a text file. Not flash.
What a brilliant idea. Have samples be text.
An older Linux distro and firefox version, no joy. It says upgrade to a later Flash version (which is the version I already have). So, another crap flash product. Still paranoid you might actually get some of the text??
It doesn't make much sense to me to make text, flash.
I disagree with the first part, my tech completely tech-clueless 60 year old next-door neighbour was using Limewire. Garden variety people my spousal unit worked with did movies (and even covers!). So anybody and everybody is, because it isn't very hard.
The second part is certainly true, though. Sell them for $40 and they are xmas presents only. At $4.99, you buy 'em whenever, even if average.
That does sound like it would be way beyond your average multibillion dollar media company, certainly.
It is busy enough up there already isn't it, without aliens hogging the airways?
Yes, the 'BBC Family Saga' Caprica doesn't sound like all that great an idea.
The Time Machine will likely cost a lot more than 50K.
Stab your eyes out, you would never need a printed book again. :)
Or Triple-Breasted Whore of Eroticon 6
I am pretty sure the ACCC already ruled that region coding is bullshit, and you can circumvent it to your heart's desire, as it was purely about manipulation, and nothing with any actual useful purpose.
Suggested to me by a fellow Slashdot user was a Palm M500. Greyscale, can take a 64MB card (so at 200-300K file size that is quite a few books). This is the one I settled on. Small enough to carry around in my pocket, too, even in one of the aluminium protective cases.
If you just want to try out how you like a palm, you could pick up one of the old greyscale 2MB or 4MB models on ebay for next to nothing, to see how you like it. I ended up with one for $10 on the minimum bid, oh bloody hell, I won it, type deals. Probably a lot cheaper there. Then, you have spent not much, and still have a note taking/address book, etc. toy to play with.
If you only want to read periodically and not for hours or days at a time, a new color one where the batteries run out much more quickly would be fine, too. Depends what you are after, I think, but I have been happily using the M500 now. You can read it in any light, and has a backlight (which, of course, will drain the battery a lot faster) for those times you are waiting for a lift in the dark, or the spousal unit complains about the light being on, and you just want to read for another 20 minutes.
You could find a Project Gutenberg torrent.
http://www.isfdb.org/ Apart from the very handy website, there is a nice MySQL database dump that is very easy to grab and use yourself. It helped me find some old novels that had read that I couldn't remember the name of, but knew when they were published. A few queries, and there you go.
Hopefully New Zealand ain't going to copy us copying the USA?
Entertainment droids are obviously too busy doing drugs to ever read a book, either, it would seem?
Librarything is great. Tagging is very useful, especially now I am getting to the stage where it is hard to remember what I have read! Lifetime account is a great bargain, I think.
I suspect they may mean bovine, equine or even porcine faecal matter.
I have had the paperback run out on me though, 2 hours into a 9 hour flight! Nice to have a few more around.
Books might be inexpensive for you, they are not for me, or others who do not live where you are.
I'd like Vista with mushrooms, onion and barbequeue sauce, please.
The Knights Templar are on 3.1 now.
Maybe only the public domain like Gutenberg and others such as Baen would be readable after 20 years? Then people might not be very happy about the DRM variety. :)