Amazon Has Drastically Changed the Way I Read

Re:Amazon Has Drastically Changed the Way I Read by ezy on Friday December 30, 2011 @06:02PM (#3409487)

Fair enough -- the transient nature of electronic media kind of short changes the human nature of existing in a physical world.

I have to say, I'm still pessimistic about bound books however. Perhaps future generations will be reading old books on their grandfather's Kindle and looking at old notes recorded on it -- interesting thought -- kind of bizarre to think about, even in this age.

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Re:Amazon Has Drastically Changed the Way I Read by wlesieutre on Friday December 30, 2011 @06:43PM (#3409571)

But you'd be lucky if the ebook hardware keeps working even a decade after your death. And there's no way to inherit your grandfather's books to use them on another reader; he owned a license to read them and it's not transferrable when he dies.

This one aspect of the lack of ownership that I find problematic, but you don't see discussed as much. The way things are going, you won't even be able to inherit someone's kitchen table because they'd bought a $500 license for their immediate family to eat off of it. Died? Factory repossesses it.

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