And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Before I'd ever bought an e-reader, I read about Amazon removing a book from people's Kindles; ironically the book was "1984" and there was some copyright problem, so they just made the book vanish from their customers.
Since then I've made sure to use Calibre E-Book Management, so all my ebooks are now backed up on my own hard drive; now these digital swindlers can't take away my ebooks!
And I'm still a sucker for actual books, they have an aura all their own, especially the old leather-bound tomes.
Nice to have my opinions reinforced.
ReplyDeleteBefore I'd ever bought an e-reader, I read about Amazon removing a book from people's Kindles; ironically the book was "1984" and there was some copyright problem, so they just made the book vanish from their customers.
ReplyDeleteSince then I've made sure to use Calibre E-Book Management, so all my ebooks are now backed up on my own hard drive; now these digital swindlers can't take away my ebooks!
And I'm still a sucker for actual books, they have an aura all their own, especially the old leather-bound tomes.
Didn´t know you read Swedish books
ReplyDeleteWell, those aren't really my books, I'm using them as examples of an archaic but still very stable form of data storage.
DeleteAs to Swedish, naturligtvis, jag kan tala språket, men inte så väl. Det är inte min modersmål, Engleska är.
DELETE = Fahrenheit 451.
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