On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote:
I was also thinking that with the cost of real estate hovering around
15-20,000 rupees a square feet in Mumbai, a Kindle pays for itself
immediately. Today, I simply have no space to store more books, and the
Kindle
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote:
Kindle/Kindle_app/Flipkart_app/e-book_reader_app are somewhat
irrelevant for me when it comes to reading books in the local
languages. There is a tremendous lack of books and, this makes the
Geese Haven! Ducks, geese, turkeysI'm sorry...I would (personal
opinion, please note) never go to a place like this. And the fulsome
review somehowmakes me wary.
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.comwrote:
I find most of their arguments can be distilled down to devices are
different from books and I haven't bothered to adjust.
How does one adjust to DRM and bitrot?
S.
--
Homer: Hey, what does this job pay?
Carl:
For DRM, remove it.
For bitrot, I have settled on ePub format which is basically just zipped
HTML. I'm hopeful it will be relatively slow to rot.
-- Charles
As Charles says, just remove DRM.
And I'm betting that bitrot happens far slower than paper decays. Plus, if
DRM has been taken care of, surely copying files is a whole lot easier than
having to buy new deadtree copies.
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri,
