Re: "Mutineer's Moon (Dahak Series)" by David Weber

On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 12:14:54 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On 3/23/2024 8:45 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:43:30 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On 3/22/2024 5:14 PM, WolfFan wrote:
>>> And to put it where Amazon can=92t touch it; they have
>>>> been known to reclaim ebooks. see
>>>> =
https://www.pcworld.com/article/519855/amazon_kindle_1984_lawsuit.html
>>>>
>>>> I don=92t trust them.
>>>>
>>> Ya, that whole incident was just stupid.  And of all the titles to
>>> reclaim THAT had to be first?!
>>=20
>> Much as I agree that reasonably-limited copyrights are helpful, what,
>> exactly, is a vendor supposed to do when it finds that it has broken
>> the law by selling something it has no right to sell? Go to jail? Pay
>> ginormous fines [1] for copyright violation?
>>=20
>> I don't know if this is the case I remember, but, in the one I
>> remember, the /real/ problem was that the book was an over-the-summer
>> reading assignment requiring a book report -- and the notes the kid
>> was planning to use for that report vanished as well.
>>=20
>> [1] At the rate of one fine per book sold, they will mount up
>> endlessly.
>
>Yes, part of what raised the volume on the screaming was that users'=20
>notes and annotations had also been erased.

As it should have -- /that/ was actual damage sustained by the
customer. Just having to buy a legal copy if you wanted to finish the
book was merely inconvenient.

Speaking of Kindle annoyances -- my new Kindles (both old ones stopped
working on their own with no encouragement [such as being dropped]
from me) now show /every/ passage underlined that anyone else has
annotated and tells me how many annotators there are -- as part of
Whispersync. No option to drop this "feature" has been found so far.
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"