Too big to fail.

eReaders
#46
Posted 08 October 2014 - 12:01 AM
#47
Posted 08 October 2014 - 12:04 AM
You really don't need to worry about that.
I don't really. See Orik's comment, above.
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#48
Posted 08 October 2014 - 12:05 AM
Too big to fail.
whenever i see that phrase, i laugh hysterically, then i cry
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
#49
Posted 08 October 2014 - 12:14 AM
#50
Posted 08 October 2014 - 02:55 PM
I understand that if all Kindle users behaved like me, Amazon would probably have to quadruple the price of the devices.
Only if their business plan involved making money. We're not there yet.
True, that.
#51
Posted 08 October 2014 - 02:58 PM
I pay for very few books that I load onto my Kindle, because I worry that Amazon will one day go belly up and take my books along with it.
There is some unresolved anxiety here relating to cloud platforms in general, and I don't just mean for books. You buy the book from Amazon, and Amazon keeps it in the Amazon cloud (not iTunes) for you.
People do wonder what happens to cloud-stored content if a big cloud vendor goes out of business in a disorganized way (as opposed to just being bought by someone). We haven't yet found out, and perhaps we never will.
#52
Posted 08 October 2014 - 02:59 PM
Of course, you might take the view that you're more likely to lose your physical library through fire, flooding, theft, or a plague of locusts, than lose your cloud library through Amazon going out of business. I don't know how to weigh those risks.
#53
Posted 08 October 2014 - 03:02 PM
MF Old
#54
Posted 08 October 2014 - 03:03 PM
Yeah, right. When I collect insurance on my destroyed library I can simply go out and buy it again.
#55
Posted 09 October 2014 - 01:06 AM
I wonder what percentage of nyc real estate is taken up by books, probably even more than CRT TV sets used to sit on.
#56
Posted 09 October 2014 - 03:02 AM
#57
Posted 09 October 2014 - 09:06 PM
But even with page numbers on an e-reader, you still have to go out of your way to look to see how many pages there are. With a paper book, you can't help but know where you are.
The progress bar works pretty well for me.
The e-books I buy directly from Amazon now have actual page numbers*. If I press the menu button it gives me an actual count instead instead of a % - "Page 372 of 525." (I've got no idea what "locations" are.)
* I suspect this might not have always been the case. Amazon goes out of it's way on it's newer releases to tout them as "having real page numbers" as if this is a newish thing.
today i noticed that the kindle app tells you how many hours and minutes you have left to read.
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
#58
Posted 08 September 2016 - 01:37 PM
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