tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post4383772219894558589..comments2024-03-29T00:34:36.786-05:00Comments on Book Chase: Best Longterm Backup for E-Books? Would You Believe Tree-Books?Sam http://www.blogger.com/profile/17448913705757509608noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-34850884360398981582011-06-15T18:01:50.341-05:002011-06-15T18:01:50.341-05:00I totally agree with you on all points you made, C...I totally agree with you on all points you made, C.B. Anything I can't literally trade or sell doesn't really belong to me, does it? That's just creepy...Sam https://www.blogger.com/profile/17448913705757509608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-39084251126038538632011-06-15T18:00:30.858-05:002011-06-15T18:00:30.858-05:00Will, I'm glad that publishers didn't pull...Will, I'm glad that publishers didn't pull that scam you reminded me of from the music labels. I did literally buy the same music three or four times in many cases because of the way the labels manipulated the hardware. The result? Later, when I could get free music from those same labels, via trades, etc., I felt no guilt about grabbing it. I figure we are even.<br /><br />Take a Sam https://www.blogger.com/profile/17448913705757509608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-38625686840286102102011-06-15T17:06:27.460-05:002011-06-15T17:06:27.460-05:00I seen to lose a few songs from my iPod every year...I seen to lose a few songs from my iPod every year. I've even lost a few audio books. I don't know where all of my books are, but I do know they are in the house somewhere.<br /><br />My big objection to eBooks is still that you don't really own them. Until you have the ability to sell something, you don't own it. All you can ever do is rent an eBook.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06906212382849291562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-76597346723077143552011-06-15T13:18:21.370-05:002011-06-15T13:18:21.370-05:00Nice, thoughtful post. If I might serve as devil&#...Nice, thoughtful post. If I might serve as devil's advocate a moment--and consider business--you mention 8-tracks and betas and LPs. What's fascinating there is that in every case, music labels have profited from reselling content to consumers ever five years or so. People first bought the Beatles on vinyl, then had to buy cassettes during the 80s, then CDs in the 90s, and now we have to Will Entrekinhttp://willentrekin.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-49718742396995805302011-06-15T06:48:27.413-05:002011-06-15T06:48:27.413-05:00Never in a million years, Andy...totally agree wit...Never in a million years, Andy...totally agree with you.Sam https://www.blogger.com/profile/17448913705757509608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-61378620274050510102011-06-15T06:48:02.143-05:002011-06-15T06:48:02.143-05:00I think this is one of those cases, Kathy...we are...I think this is one of those cases, Kathy...we are in such a rush to use all the new technology available to us that we don't stop to think it all the way through before jumping off the cliff. I love new gadgets more than the average guy, I suspect, but this e-book thing is starting to make me nervous.Sam https://www.blogger.com/profile/17448913705757509608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-55825445073269371232011-06-15T06:46:45.536-05:002011-06-15T06:46:45.536-05:00I've fooled around with converting between the...I've fooled around with converting between the various e-book formats, too, Library Girl, but it's so much trouble - and the results so inconsistent - that I don't do it much. The way that files can be "edited" does make me wonder if an original book could eventually be so corrupted that no one remembers what the original really said...lot's of room for political Sam https://www.blogger.com/profile/17448913705757509608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-23114714832799669792011-06-15T05:52:37.423-05:002011-06-15T05:52:37.423-05:00Tree books will always be the best! E-books are a ...Tree books will always be the best! E-books are a cool innovation but will never be able to replace the real thing!The Book Nuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08742929699209017621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-75427859669324095012011-06-14T20:11:59.117-05:002011-06-14T20:11:59.117-05:00"Tree-books rule. They will still be with me..."Tree-books rule. They will still be with me when all the e-readers in the world have been fried by some catastrophic event caused by Mother Nature or her idiot sons, Man."<br />Truer words have never been spoken!<br />The part about the storage facility reminds me of the seed storage vault near the North Pole.<br />I guess, sometimes, we have to save ourselves from ourselves.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13987598950262475994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-21756549054956196822011-06-14T19:14:39.575-05:002011-06-14T19:14:39.575-05:00There is some ability to change e-book file format...There is some ability to change e-book file formats (I just changed an html e-book into EPUB, because I was unwilling to get the other available format, PDF, because PDFs look terrible at the font size I'm comfortable reading), but there are limits to what can be done, and sometimes the results take a LOT of editing in order to be readable. Your post is part of the reason why I find all the &A Library Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144279685884011943noreply@blogger.com