[FoRK] Re: Kindle first impressions

[Jeff Bone]

On May 5, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Tom Higgins wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>
>> Sure, sure.  I suppose my point is the lack of all that isn't so  
>> big a
>> negative as to outweigh the benefits (to me.)
>>
>
> Loss of fair use of what you purchase is not a big negative to you?  
> While I
> find that hard to believe i can parse it into an understanding of  
> where you
> are coming from.

Well, it's not at all clear that they can take fair use away in any  
case, regardless what they attempt to do in their license agreements  
(freakin' lawyers, I refuse to acknowledge any terms in any license  
agreement I "sign," period.  Almost as unreasonable as our tax code,  
certainly easier to ignore. ;-)  MY use of said materials is reading  
them, and being able to read them *right then* without waiting and at  
lower cost certainly outweighs the inconvenience or, at the limit,  
impossibility of various forms of sharing.  (Though they're bits,  
ultimately you can get at 'em in some way or another.)

$0.02,

jb