http://www.librations.us/2009/07/22/%e2%80%9corwellian%e2%80%9d-kindle-deletions-legitimate-copyright-kerfuffle-giant-yawn-or-teachable-moment/ Get here fast and then we'll take it slow. Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:08:33 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.librations.us/2009/07/22/%e2%80%9corwellian%e2%80%9d-kindle-deletions-legitimate-copyright-kerfuffle-giant-yawn-or-teachable-moment/comment-page-1/#comment-14 raya Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:44:28 +0000 http://www.librations.us/?p=291#comment-14 I mostly just enjoyed the irony of the fact that it was 1984 that just suddenly disappeared on thousands of Kindles, as if they had never existed. There is a lot of buzz about libraries offering e-books on Kindles to their patrons, and this is a potential reason to step back and say, whoa there! Do we really want to give this much power over the devices and content that we have paid for to a third party? I mostly just enjoyed the irony of the fact that it was 1984 that just suddenly disappeared on thousands of Kindles, as if they had never existed. There is a lot of buzz about libraries offering e-books on Kindles to their patrons, and this is a potential reason to step back and say, whoa there! Do we really want to give this much power over the devices and content that we have paid for to a third party?

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