On 30/05/2010, at 16:54, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > As a disabled person, I really like the idea that a library can rent number > of digital copies of books, and lend them out over the internet with DRM set > to self destruct in 2 weeks. That way someone can check them out and not > bother to return them, at the end of two weeks, they can lend them out again.
This is an excellent idea. I wonder why nobody's doing it? > That's why I used a frowny. I expect they will bomb and Steimatsky will be > selling them on close out to get rid of them. They will definately lower the > price to get people to buy their overpriced books. At which point the frowny face becomes a smiley. The fact that this device HAS DRM doesn't mean it *REQUIRES* DRM. I have many many ebooks, and a dedicated reader on clearance that reads the books I already have or may get in the future by channels other than the official one, would be a wonderful thing! Currently I read ebooks on my iPhone with Stanza, and it's extremely usable, but not ideal. A trade- or regular paperback sized eink reader would be perfect. > Nook... thing that will be missing is Hebrew and I'm sure someone will figure > out how to include it. It's running Android, and has already been rooted, so I suspect Hebrew's no problem. > As for libraries, Israel suffers because Andrew Carnegie was neither a Jew > nor a zionist, though only a librarian from the US is likely to understand > the comment. Or Enoch Pratt in Maryland :) --sambo _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
