In praise of dead trees
Dec. 29th, 2015 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyYou know what's great?
Books that are printed on paper.
You know why?
Because I can open up a 100-year-old paper book and it will still work the way it's supposed to. Unlike, say, my three-year-old Sony Reader, which now does not work because it's incompatible with Adobe Digital Editions and the Sony Reader software is incompatible with the new Mac OS, and Calibre, which is open source, can't manage library e-books. The device can't download from the library directly because it's full of garbage that Sony put on there and slow as shit to boot.
So now I can only read e-books that I steal or buy. Which is not something I'm in the habit of doing.
Thanks, capitalism!
Books that are printed on paper.
You know why?
Because I can open up a 100-year-old paper book and it will still work the way it's supposed to. Unlike, say, my three-year-old Sony Reader, which now does not work because it's incompatible with Adobe Digital Editions and the Sony Reader software is incompatible with the new Mac OS, and Calibre, which is open source, can't manage library e-books. The device can't download from the library directly because it's full of garbage that Sony put on there and slow as shit to boot.
So now I can only read e-books that I steal or buy. Which is not something I'm in the habit of doing.
Thanks, capitalism!
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Date: 2015-12-30 09:58 pm (UTC)I did legit sign out some books and then illegally downloaded them in an act of desperation, but now I have a workaround so I won't do that anymore.