Like your Kindle? and all those e-books you’re reading on it? What about reselling the e-book once you’ve read it? The company that amazed the world with its transformation from a bookseller to a technology leader has some other plans for the e-books it sells so cheaply. It intends to create an exclusive second-hand market for used e-books, according to a patent that it has recently been awarded. Nicholas Carr weighs in with his thoughts on the idea that pushes the envelope on the idea of “goods”.
Tag: ebooks
eBooks & Tracking [Article]
eBook readers give its users so much convenience, as many would readily agree. But as is the norm, nothing in the world is free – so what is the cost of this convenience? asks this article/
Reading [Essay]
We who pride ourselves in reading much and widely forget that the printed page serves us in a similar fashion as the drug serves an addict, says Anthony Daniels in this rather long, captivating essay about the future of books & reading in the digital age. A bibliophile’s delight, even when it points an accusatory finger at himself!
eek books!
Imagine this situation: You walk into a book store, find a book whose title seems interesting, browse through it, & decide to buy it. You come back home, & put it on your bookshelf. A couple of days later, a book store employees walks into your house, & takes away the book, because they don’t like who you are associating yourself with. Outrageous? Essentially what happened to Norwegian Linn Jordet Nygaard with her e-book collection on her Kindle.
A chest of books..
Like the tile says, a great resource of outstanding literature..
http://chestofbooks.com/
check out the health section…
An excerpt
This section of the book is from the “Handbook of Nature Cure Volume One: Nature Cure vs. Medical Science” book, by John L. Fielder.
Less Food Is Required As Man Grows Older
This retrenchment is necessary, nor can it be avoided, since it is impossible for an to live foreve; and as he draws near this end, he is reduced so low as to be no longer able to take any nourishment, unless it be to swallow, and that too with difficulty, the yolk of an egg in the four and twenty hours, and thus end by mere dissolution, without any pain or sickness, as I expect will be my case. This is a blessing of great importance, yet may be expected by all those who lead a sober life, of whatever degree or condition, whether high, or middling, or low; for we are all of the same species, and composed of the same four elements. And, since a long and healthy life ought to be greatly coveted by every man, as I shall presently show, I conclude that every man is bound in duty to exert himself to obtain longevity, and that he cannot promis himself such a blessing without temperance and sobriety.