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Have you ever wondered where books come from?
moripartylove: neil-gaiman: allofthefeelings: bluelightseven: zwischendenstuehlen: Well then, let me show you, because that’s what I do for a living. Right now, it’s this time of the year, and the little ones have just freshly hatched: You’ll notice they’re still blind and naked when they hatch. So I make them little coats to keep them warm… Continue reading Have you ever wondered where books come from?
verylisa: notalwaysweak: merinnan: vassraptor: itsrainingmensheviks: dateagirlwhosuggestion: date a girl who treats you the same way she treats books I’ll critique you continuously and won’t be too bothered if I break your spine has too many of them, never finishes most of them, leaves them in awkward positions heaped around the place? Has hundreds of them… Continue reading
You Don’t Own Your Ebooks
You don’t own your ebooks with DRM. You’re merely
licensing the privilege to read them. Some readers overseas have learned
this the hard way (yet again) now that Nook is going out of business in
the United Kingdom. But don’t worry, they’re working to let you maybe possibly transfer all those books you bought.The Register and TechDirt brought this notice from Nook’s UK site to our attention (emphasis mine):
Effective from March 15, 2016, NOOK will no longer sell
digital content in the United Kingdom. The NOOK Store on NOOK devices
sold in the UK, on the UK NOOK Reading App for Android, and at nook.com/gb will cease operation.To
meet your digital reading needs going forward, NOOK has partnered with
award-winning Sainsbury’s Entertainment on Demand to ensure that you
have continued access to the vast majority of your purchased NOOK Books
at no new cost to you. Further instructions on how to transfer
your NOOK Books to a new or existing Sainsbury’s Entertainment on Demand
account will be sent to you by email over the coming weeks. Please
ensure that you look out for these emails as they will contain important
information on what to do next.Your action is required.
“…continued access to the vast majority of your purchased NOOK Books…”
They’re not even promising that you’ll be able to transfer all your books!
Digital rights management (DRM) is absolutely crippling our ability
to preserve digital knowledge for the future. And it’s half the reason I
prefer deadtree books.Even when it’s an accident (like when Amazon deleted everybody’s copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from their Kindles) it shows just how little control we have over the books we “buy” from digital retailers.
So repeat after me…
You don’t own your ebooks.
You don’t own your ebooks.
You don’t own your ebooks.
This has been an issue for libraries since e-books first started being released.
I keep forgetting that this is a thing that isn’t widely known outside of libraries, the mentality of publishers that electronic media is being “lent” to the buyer, rather than actually becoming a thing you own.
This really bothers me on an accessibility level, bc my Kindle having everything on it makes it accessible to me in my tiny house, with my busted back. I don’t have to get up to get another book. I don’t have to reserve space I don’t have for books. I don’t have to carry a bunch of heavy books when I’m already managing my wheelchair etc while traveling.
This is such a problem.
My husband has complicated allergies. Book ink and the formaldehyde in the paper is a major issue for him. But an ereader works great!
Richard Stalman wrote an article about this back in the 90s called The Right to Read, IIRC.
Welcome to our dystopian cyberpunk present.
This is why I use Calibre to back everything up.
There you go.
For anyone who reads sci fi and fantasy, Baen/Tor (who publish a LOT of SF/f, including my beloved Vorkosigan Saga) sell most of their own ebooks on their own site unless the author has a special agreement, and all their ebooks are DRM free. They’re available in a bunch of different formats depending on what kind of ereader you have. Some other publishers also do, though I can’t remember which ones.
I know that nook, Amazon, et al are convenient aggregators, but it may be worth checking if the publisher sells a DRM free version directly if there’s a book you really wanna make sure you don’t lose access to. In addition to the nook problem listed above, Amazon have also been caught retroactively editing the content of books in people’s libraries after purchase. So. You know. Either find a DRM free version to start with, or be prepared to crack every book you buy.
for said cracking, please see DeDRM
Dear Publishers
geezerwench: the-knights-who-say-book: city-of-fiction: I love buying your books but PLEASE DON’T change the covers halfway through a series, could you at least wait until the series is over and then re-print? Or print the old versions as well? change the size of the paperbacks halfway through a series, now my bookshelf is messed up thanks… Continue reading Dear Publishers
Things I Have Done with Books I Could Not Have Done with Boys
post-and-out: This list is not exhaustive. Feel free to add your own * Stolen them from my mother* Thrown them at a wall for pissing me off* Stuck on a shelf and forgotten for six months* Handed to a friend immediately after being done with them with instructions to “Finish this as soon as possible”*… Continue reading Things I Have Done with Books I Could Not Have Done with Boys
Things I don’t need: new books. Things I have: new books. THINGS I ACTUALLY NEED: new bookshelf.
flo-nelja: vorfreudde: it literally stresses me out how many good books are out there that i still haven’t read It could be worse. There could be no good books out there that you haven’t read.
dukeofbookingham: glorfindely: when i’m out with my family and i see a book store This is like the most personally accurate post I’ve ever seen another person make. A+ gif usage.
Monsters' Queen 