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toranokaze · 10-06-2009, 02:01 AM

What spooks me about digital books is reliability. When I have a traditional book that is my book; what is in that book can not be changed, and if someone whats to deprive me of my book they must psychically and forcefully take my book from me. Ebooks I don't see that same security with these net based E-books. For example what happened with,ironically, Orwell's 1984 when it was redacted due to a loss of copyright from Amazon. This was a legitimate reason to pull the book but it shows the power over information that could be welded if traditional books were not around any more.

10-06-2009, 02:01 AM	#17
toranokaze I'm still a jerk Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Little Mexico Posts: 1,817	What spooks me about digital books is reliability. When I have a traditional book that is my book; what is in that book can not be changed, and if someone whats to deprive me of my book they must psychically and forcefully take my book from me. Ebooks I don't see that same security with these net based E-books. For example what happened with,ironically, Orwell's 1984 when it was redacted due to a loss of copyright from Amazon. This was a legitimate reason to pull the book but it shows the power over information that could be welded if traditional books were not around any more. __________________ "Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa It is the ignorance of ignorance that lead to the death of knowledge The Virgin Mary does not weep for her son, for he is in paradise. She weeps for the world , for we are in suffering.