I hadn’t really thought about this but was listening to Verdict with Ted Cruz podcast and they mentioned how book burning like in Fahrenheit 451 could end up not being necessary with everyone going digital. All it takes now is Jeff Bezos hitting the delete button and millions of people lose access to the book on their kindle, its that simple. We now see even Dr. Suess getting canceled and this is an even more real threat. I haven’t been a big ebook fan so I’ve mostly avoided anyway but this definitely makes me think even more about it and it might be good to really only try to buy physical books, especially from conservative authors, to ensure big tech doesn’t have the ability to easily take them away from us.
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Don’t jump to the wrong conclusions :).
Amazon really can delete books on your kindle (if you have connection to receive the command). There was a related accident ~10 years ago when some book was revoked from the store due to some legal quarrel. And the by-effect was it got deleted from devices too.
At the time it was recognised as error, the copies reinstated and the infrastructure adjusted that it not happen again. Certainly it proved that the technical way exists for something most people though not.
The current firmware may even actually be incapable but nothing prevents to reinstate it by an update. And overrule the previous promises. (I guess amazon would preempt legal stuff by just issuing refund and not miss the $.)
With all that said, the solution is simply backup your books. Besos definitely can’t delete your copies. And then the worst you can suffer is to read the book on something non-recent-Kindle or keep the online connection off.
Buying physical books? I would not suggest that. Says me, having like 1000 of them just in this room so probably qualifying for enthusiast. 🙂
Actually discussed going back to reading books instead of movies/tv. It is much safer that relying on giant political corporations that always include an agenda in all their broadcasting, even if its the subtext and/or commercials. Well good point on my e-library likely being taken. Back to looking for actual books. Hope someone besides Amazon is selling them still….
I buy mostly used books and have stopped buying them from Amazon. I purchase mostly through Thriftbooks whose service I’ve found to be much better than Amazon’s when it comes to previously owned tomes. When I’m done reading them I then pass them on to friends or donate them to a group who mails them to our service people overseas.
Thanks! That’s something I hadn’t thought about, mailing books to the troops.
Conservatives have no safe quarter. We need to anticipate the best we can and as your comment suggests, get out in front of the obstacles and downright crushing of our rights in every way possible. I’ve stocked up on 4 months of long-term food storage and a water purifier. Hate to think I’ll ever have to do anything with it except leave it to my heirs, but times, they are looking worrisome.
I currently have 24 MRE’s and 6 pounds of coffee in my larder. The coffee will be good as a barter commodity when things get scarce. It’s not a large cache, but it’s a start. I once saw a plastic bag water container that’s designed to fit into a bathtub, but I lost trace of where to get one.
WaterBOB.com. $35 100 gallons, one time use, recyclable. with hand pump. safe water storage for 16 weeks.
Once we had a storm knock out power for 4 days and I used buckets of water from my swimming pool to flush the toilet.