Happy digital world: switching off your books

[Skybird]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...soft-store-faq


Yes, its real. All notes somebody has written into "his" copy of the book, will be lost as well. The individual user has to decide whether the fincial comneonsaiton for that is worth it or not.


Now consider Steam. Online music libraries. Apple iTunes. Amazon Kindle. Cloud computing. Digital bank accounts with direct banks.



Still in principle love with it? Then you love beign a remote-controlled drone.



And you can be switched off from the distance, any time.

[Jimbuna]

Nothing beats a good old book.

[Skybird]

Indeed. And so far, when good quality paper was used and when the storage codnitons are kept optimal, paper is superior in loingevity to any modern tehcnbology dta astorage we so far have experience with. Books smell, and feel like something, and holding them already triggers memories in you. A digital data file - when the carrier and decyphering technology gets dated or got sorted out, you cannot even play it any longer.


I use a Tolino ebook reader, however - but only for books of very huge volume, that would be unpleasant to hold up when reading them in bed. Novels from 800 pages upward, for example. Good books like these I however also always own as a paper copy.


( Germany is the only Western country where Amazon'S kindle is not the number one ebook reader on the market. Over here, Tolinos are the market dominator. Technically comparable in qality to the Kindle, but you are not imprisoned in Amazon'S market biotope, but can switch between book chain shops, also can easily store pdfs and open format files on it. I recommend Tolinos over Kindles any time, they have just advantages over Amazon. In no other country, as far as I am aware, Amazon has been successfully confronted and countered on the ebook market. Tolinos are made by an alliance of other, non-Amazon book selling chain and online stores, and Telekom: a united front against Amazon, here it paid off for customers and the participants as well. )

[Eichhörnchen]

It leads one to ponder the worth of something so intangible; the "free" e-book turns out to be as completely insubstantial and worthless as one you paid hard (or even digital) cash for

[Catfish]

Books. Not eBooks, or if only those i can store away on a hard drive.
And CDs, DVDs.
Let the hipsters do what they want.

[Skybird]

Its worth to note that Amazon in the past years has remote-targeted individual Kindle devices as well and deleted content on them. In their fine-print, their rules say that if you use a Kindle from one continental trade zone in another to access any Amazon shop there, you forfeit any rights in both zones and that they can cancel your account then and you go void on all content you ever bought. That was what i have read several years ago at least, and it was done this way indeed. Not often, but it was done.



Also, in even fewer cases, politically unwanted books or content of disputed legal status also was remote-deleted on customer's Kindle devices, in a variety of Western countries, including the US and Germany.



Neither digital life and digital home nor big data accept just small offerings and just small sacrifices - they want it all and want to maximise your exposition to their mercy. Mercy translates into: their interest over yours.