So well articulated! I am on this same journey. Both away from digital content for the media that is most at risk and by connection the building of the physical library I never had and undervalued when younger.
I look forward to seeing your collection grow and for a future piece on magazines as I’ve been moving in that direction as well.
There was a time when I would have called someone writing something like this paranoid, but honestly it seems likely to me at this point, at least in the US. The magazines are a bit of nostalgia, but for the same reason. Virginia requires age verification now to view most commercial adult websites. I have kids, I understand wanting to protect them from things, but not at the cost of denying to everyone.
Mississippi also has the requirement to register for access. I agree there needs to be steps taken to (hate to say protect because they always find ways around) keep kids from this material.
Unfortunately, though I am afraid this is being used more as a tracking tool to monitor what I am doing more so than to protect kids
Caleb, when you register tryouts device with Amazon you are given an email address. You can send Mobi and PDF format to that email to load yo your kindle. Unfortunately yhough it is registered as a document and not a book.
I agree that there is nothing like having a physical copy in your hands. zi useful yo love the smell of a really worn copy of a book.
I do have to disagree in oart about the lease. With the exception to the books that are part of the readers club, I was able to download and convert all my Kindle purchases into Calibre library to he read on any other device. I convert to mobile and republican so they will work on my multilevel devices
Great point Dennis, you can do that and then read them on any device. I at least, had never done it and had 100s of titles. You can also buy ebooks from other sources and email them to your Kindle. I think though, once you are bought into an ecosystem like Amazon (and even Apple), it’s easy to just assume it will always be there. I’m on my 7th Kindle and have lost at least 2 books that I know of. I’m not implying something sinister happened, but you can see how easy it would be.
So well articulated! I am on this same journey. Both away from digital content for the media that is most at risk and by connection the building of the physical library I never had and undervalued when younger.
I look forward to seeing your collection grow and for a future piece on magazines as I’ve been moving in that direction as well.
There was a time when I would have called someone writing something like this paranoid, but honestly it seems likely to me at this point, at least in the US. The magazines are a bit of nostalgia, but for the same reason. Virginia requires age verification now to view most commercial adult websites. I have kids, I understand wanting to protect them from things, but not at the cost of denying to everyone.
Mississippi also has the requirement to register for access. I agree there needs to be steps taken to (hate to say protect because they always find ways around) keep kids from this material.
Unfortunately, though I am afraid this is being used more as a tracking tool to monitor what I am doing more so than to protect kids
I have also scanned in physical books and sent to my kindle. I travel some do this was a great way to have sny of my books available when I want
Caleb, when you register tryouts device with Amazon you are given an email address. You can send Mobi and PDF format to that email to load yo your kindle. Unfortunately yhough it is registered as a document and not a book.
I agree that there is nothing like having a physical copy in your hands. zi useful yo love the smell of a really worn copy of a book.
I do have to disagree in oart about the lease. With the exception to the books that are part of the readers club, I was able to download and convert all my Kindle purchases into Calibre library to he read on any other device. I convert to mobile and republican so they will work on my multilevel devices
Great point Dennis, you can do that and then read them on any device. I at least, had never done it and had 100s of titles. You can also buy ebooks from other sources and email them to your Kindle. I think though, once you are bought into an ecosystem like Amazon (and even Apple), it’s easy to just assume it will always be there. I’m on my 7th Kindle and have lost at least 2 books that I know of. I’m not implying something sinister happened, but you can see how easy it would be.