KINDLE

[Gen]

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suh mi bass did gie mi 300 from 2006 and mi nevah convert it to nuh gift cert cause mi nevah like none a the store dem weh mi fi choose pan. dem did have coach and as mi quint dem tek dem offa the list. fast forward to yessideh and mi see seh dem have amazon pan it.

[evanovitch]

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i want one but am loathed to buy it ..fi real..feel like mi a sellout mi books if mi dweet

[Gen]

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anybody have this and can explain the ease of use ?

[Gen]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">price drop alert !!!!!!!!!!!</span>

299

[evanovitch]

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okayyyyy

[kia027]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">anybody have this and can explain the ease of use ? </div></div>

does it count that I saw someone using it and asked their opinion?

[Jazz]

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Mi Sony Reader screen broke and now I have the Kindle 2 - would nat trade it even fe ah plate ah stew peas!!!

I love it! Especially since i can order books directly now with it's wireless capability an nuh haffe hook up to the compiuter - plus amazons prices and selections are better than I was getting from the Sony dealer

[Gen]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">okayyyyy </div></div>

[Gen]

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BOAL it dat good huh ? dat yuh a guh gie up yuh strew peas fah

last night mi a read one hardcover in bed and the sitten did suh big and bulky pan mi chest mi really cant do that much longer.




<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: A_lil_Jazz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Mi Sony Reader screen broke and now I have the Kindle 2 - would nat trade it even fe ah plate ah stew peas!!!

I love it! Especially since i can order books directly now with it's wireless capability an nuh haffe hook up to the compiuter - plus amazons prices and selections are better than I was getting from the Sony dealer </div></div>

[Gen]

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Jazz please come back and give us updates on the features, since you are the only one that has it and using it on a regular basis.

[Jazz]

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What else is there to say Gen?? mi love it!!! I think it is the BEST Tech toy I have ever owned (and I have a LOT!.

Now instead of walking around with 4 books for vacation I have one slim sumting that can hold hundreds.

You can get papers and magazines delivered to the unit on a daily or monthly basis. when u surf it uses the same technology as utilized by your cellphone so u don't have to catch a wifi hotspot - and you're not charged for that.

It also has text to speech... where u can have the book read to you...

wah else? aks mi a question

[Seveen]

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Amazon Faces a Fight Over Its E-Books
By BRAD STONE
SAN FRANCISCO — Last week, Jeffrey P. Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, offered an apparently heartfelt and anguished mea culpa to customers whose digital editions of George Orwell’s “1984” were remotely deleted from their Kindle reading devices.

Though copies of the books were sold by a bookseller that did not have legal rights to the novel, Mr. Bezos wrote on a company forum that Amazon’s “ ‘solution’ to the problem was stupid, thoughtless and painfully out of line with our principles.”

An apology was not enough for many people.

A growing number of civil libertarians and customer advocates wants Amazon to fundamentally alter its method for selling Kindle books, lest it be forced to one day change or recall books, perhaps by a judge ruling in a defamation case — or by a government deciding a particular work is politically damaging or embarrassing.

“As long as Amazon maintains control of the device it will have this ability to remove books and that means they will be tempted to use it or they will be forced to it,” said Holmes Wilson, campaigns manager of the Free Software Foundation.

The foundation, based in Boston, is soliciting signatures from librarians, publishers and major authors and public intellectuals. This week it plans to present a petition to Amazon asking it to give up control over the books people load on their Kindles, and to reconsider its use of the software called digital rights management, or D.R.M. The software allows the company to maintain strict control over the copies of electronic books on its reader and also prevents other companies from selling material for the device.

Two years after Amazon first introduced the Kindle and lighted a fire under the e-books market, there is increasing awareness of how traditional libraries of paper and ink differ from those made of bits and bytes. The D.R.M. in Amazon’s Kindle books, backed up by license agreements with copyright holders, prevents customers from copying or reselling Kindle books — the legal right of “first sale” that is guaranteed to owners of regular books.

D.R.M. has created a new dynamic between consumers and the vendors of digital media like books and movies. People do not so much own, but rent this media. And the rental agreement can be breached by the manufacturer at any time, sometime with little or no notice.

People are also worried that the very architecture of network-connected devices like the Kindle, TiVo or iPod give tech companies unprecedented control over digital media and by extension, the free exchange of ideas.

Once upon a time, retailers sold customers a product and then walked away after the transaction. Today’s specialized devices often keep an umbilical cord to their vendor, loading updates and offering convenient ways to make purchases. These devices also limit the extent to which people can load independent software and customize their experiences.

Such tethered systems provide significant advantages to the consumer. Companies can keep their own records of what people buy and restore the content if it is inadvertently lost. Device software can be kept up to date, and vendors can track what people buy and make personalized recommendations for new material they might like.

Randal C. Picker, a law professor at the University of Chicago, says he thinks Amazon was right to delete the improperly sold versions of “1984” and argues such systems can also allow companies to better enforce copyright laws. He notes that the harm to the Orwell book buyers was minimal, since their money was refunded after copies were deleted from their Kindles.

“Because copyright infringement was poor and lax in the offline world, it should also be that way in the online world? I don’t understand that logic,” Mr. Picker said. “The whole point of moving online is that it creates new opportunities.”

But critics say that any device capable of interfering with how its owner uses media is potentially dangerous. “I worry that systems like these tethered appliances are gifts to regulators,” said Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School and author of the book, “The Future of the Internet — and How to Stop It.” Mr. Zittrain predicts that governments in some parts of the world will want to use it “like a line item veto for content,” removing objectionable sentences or chapters in some books.

“It could happen first in jurisdictions like the United Kingdom, where there isn’t as rich a First Amendment tradition and where libel suits happen much more frequently,” he said.

Whether or not people are bothered by these possibilities may in part be a function of their age, as a new generation grows up with an implicit understanding of the rules around these networked devices and learns to live with them.

“I’d like to live in a perfect world where I own this content and can do whatever I want with it,” said Justin Gawronski, a high school student whose copy of “1984” was erased by Amazon, but who recently declined when a lawyer asked him to join a class-action lawsuit over the incident. Mr. Gawronski said, “This is probably going to happen again and we just have to learn to live with it.”

[Gen]

Re: KINDLE

read the articles related to this fiasco.

americans have this nasty habit of being up in arms about EVERYTHING. \0/

so amazon sold copies of the books that they apparently didn't have rights to, hence they went back and deleted the purchased copies from customers kindles, and customers are now ready to cry mutiny on the bounty (or sitten equally ridiculous)

what's the big deal ? they don't have the rights to sell it end of story.


yes amazon will now tighten up on the process they use to determine if they actually have the rights to sell copies of the books for the kindle.

[Jazz]

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Oh shoot = u know I downloaded that book - thought it would be good for nice quick re-read btu I hadn;t gotten around to reading it yet - mi nevva even notice say it gaan \o/

What they want to do is use this as a loophole in order to be able to sell books that can used on the Kindle... Once amazon relinquishes the control that it has.

hey mi nuh wrang dem fe try hole awn to it - it's the capitalist way.

[seemiyah]

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Gen I think people are looking at the difference between owning a physical copy of a book and &quot;owning&quot; on a Kindle. If you went in the bookstore and buy a book that is not to be released yet the bookstore cannot come to your house and take it from you, it would be just too bad for them. Kindle should not be able to just delete things you have purchased because your understanding is that you legally own it. If they find out the can't sell it anymore fine, thats for future copies but you can't just delete people things like that. I don't own a Kindle but I would be up in arms too. Dats why oonu mus go buy regular books so &quot;di man&quot; cyaan track oonu like dat...