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i made this thread using an amazon kindle v1.2. yay for me!

kill yourself

>>2
Rude!

>>1
Kindle is shit. I'd like to be able to not read my books in a format that will become obsolete in no more than ten years.

>>4
Which part of Mobi is going obsolete? The zip part? The HTML part? The Unicode part?

You can just unzip ebooks and read them in a fucking browser...

>>5
Digital data, is unfortunately, a very volatile asset. Most intelligent electronic users know this. Not to mention the fact that the Kindle technology and other ebook readers like it suffers at the whims of its DRM technology and technologically incompetent people like lawyers and judges. Also, file formats from just twenty years ago can barely be read today.
You can just unzip ebooks and read them in a fucking browser...
True, but I'd still rather be able to read an actual book and have an actual tangible copy of it, and passing down an actual library of books than a USB stick of full of PDFs of dubious quality and readability.

Last but not least, is the comfort of not being a neophile douchebag, jerking off over the latest fad technology like ebook readers; using a iPad as such would probably be the only thing that would be committing an even worse offense in the same category.

.txt files are the most durable.

>>6
file formats from twenty years ago can barely be read today
Barely? You mean easily? And twenty years ago people were using Unicode, ZIP and HTML.

Got a Sony E-Reader for x-mas. runs pretty sweet

>>6

Paper, is unfortunately, a very volatile asset. Most intelligent textile users know this. Not to mention the fact that the Gutenberg technology and other printing presses like it suffers at the whims of its publishers and technologically incompetent people like lawyers and judges. Also, scrolls from just twenty years ago can barely be read today.
| You can just unbind books and read them as fucking scrolls...
True, but I'd still rather be able to read an actual slate and have an actual tangible copy of it, and passing down an actual stack of slates than a leather binding of full of pages of dubious quality and readability.

Last but not least, is the comfort of not being a neophile douchebag, jerking off over the latest fad technology like books; using a typewriter as such would probably be the only thing that would be committing an even worse offense in the same category.

>>8
And twenty years ago people were using Unicode, ZIP and HTML.
That's when they were first being developed, those are all also open formats that aren't subject to patents and DRM bullshit either. If things like the Kindle didn't come shipped with DRM and privacy issues and shit like that, then sure, it'd be a much more interesting product in that regard. Ebooks also don't have strong consumer protections like paper books have and are not likely to in the near future, due to the aforementioned technologically illiterate judges and lawyers, plus a strong intellectual property lobby that has been surprisingly more successful recently than in years past.

>>10
Cute. Does your mother know that you're using the Internet unsupervised?
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Also, think you're being clever with your pseudo Shii^tchan quoting, huh?

>>11
You forgot to spoiler the t, dumbass.

>>12
You forgot to spoiler the t
Using [sup][/sup] tags is a popular alternative. I take it you don't browse /prog/, can't say I blame you, that board has been quite shitty lately.

The reason I got a kindle was because of abundantly available books from ^{TORRENT SITES}. It would have been very difficult and very expensive to get the 600+ ebooks I have on my Kindle 3 now as dead tree books. Definitely far above the 130$ I paid for my Kindle.

>>14
Well goodie for you.