If you know that your dislike of paper is weird, you shouldn’t be giving general advice about it. (you said we should throw out books)
Your dislike of the Kindle sounds like status quo bias to me. Maybe the proprietary format means that the books will only last a few years, but is that so bad? In return, you get a searchable format and no physical clutter. And if you switch to another format and lose everything, you’re purged of electronic clutter!
Yes, you should definitely throw out your books. For everyone else it was obvious hyperbole for literary effect, but for you I mean it literally. What on earth?
Yes, that is so bad. I’m not paying paper prices for bits that evaporate, and I’m not giving Amazon a hundred quid’s encouragement to pull that sort of stunt. That’s an even more direct incentive to piracy than trying to watch a commercial DVD. In return, I get a searchable format and no physical clutter!
Although purging my life of digital clutter is actually an attractive idea. Hence the notion of “inbox zero”. Like not really appreciating minimalism until you’ve been subjected to horrible aesthetic noise for a long time.
That’s an even more direct incentive to piracy than trying to watch a commercial DVD.
I liked that cartoon, but it’s not completely accurate. I can skip over all of those things on my computer with software DVD players, whether the DVD was commercially authorized or not. This is a problem with some DVD players, not really a “piracy” issue.
Enforcement in software players is lax for whatever reason, but makers of DVD players need to agree to honor the Prohibited User Operations flags in order to get a patent license to use the DVD video format. So the general point stands that if you’re skipping previews, someone is either in breach of contract or breaking the law.
If you know that your dislike of paper is weird, you shouldn’t be giving general advice about it. (you said we should throw out books)
Your dislike of the Kindle sounds like status quo bias to me. Maybe the proprietary format means that the books will only last a few years, but is that so bad? In return, you get a searchable format and no physical clutter. And if you switch to another format and lose everything, you’re purged of electronic clutter!
Yes, you should definitely throw out your books. For everyone else it was obvious hyperbole for literary effect, but for you I mean it literally. What on earth?
Yes, that is so bad. I’m not paying paper prices for bits that evaporate, and I’m not giving Amazon a hundred quid’s encouragement to pull that sort of stunt. That’s an even more direct incentive to piracy than trying to watch a commercial DVD. In return, I get a searchable format and no physical clutter!
Although purging my life of digital clutter is actually an attractive idea. Hence the notion of “inbox zero”. Like not really appreciating minimalism until you’ve been subjected to horrible aesthetic noise for a long time.
I liked that cartoon, but it’s not completely accurate. I can skip over all of those things on my computer with software DVD players, whether the DVD was commercially authorized or not. This is a problem with some DVD players, not really a “piracy” issue.
Enforcement in software players is lax for whatever reason, but makers of DVD players need to agree to honor the Prohibited User Operations flags in order to get a patent license to use the DVD video format. So the general point stands that if you’re skipping previews, someone is either in breach of contract or breaking the law.