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Was the Kindle invented in 1984

This is creepy, but poetically ironic... Amazon snatched George Orwell books off people's Kindles in the dead of Night (albeit crediting their accounts for the disappeared material.  Here's the whole story in the NYT.

July 17, 2009 in Books |

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Randy Johnson

I've read ebooks before off my computer. Don't think I would like a steady diet of them though. To adapt an old saying, "They'll have to pry my books from my cold dead hands!"

Posted by: Randy Johnson | July 17, 2009 at 01:25 PM

Jeff Mariotte

I'm an old-fashioned book guy too. The Kindle looks pretty book-like when you're reading it, but I don't usually have to have 100 books with me wherever I go, so there's no advantage to it over having a real book.

And since Amazon can apparently drop in whenever they want and take away things you already paid for, that's another reason to keep away from it. Who knows what else they can do? Change the text of something? Add things you didn't ask for? No thanks.

Posted by: Jeff Mariotte | July 17, 2009 at 01:32 PM

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