Comments on: >Euwwww, used e-books http://www.hbook.com/2010/05/blogs/read-roger/euwwww-used-e-books/ Publications about books for children and young adults Tue, 14 May 2013 17:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2010/05/blogs/read-roger/euwwww-used-e-books/#comment-9870 Anonymous Mon, 17 May 2010 17:23:47 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3499#comment-9870 >If you can't opt out of your own highlights being shared, it could sort of make you want to highlight ridiculous things on purpose. <br /><br />Anyhow, maybe authors would find it interesting to see what people highlighted... then again it might just give them the willies too. <br /><br />The whole thing is just forced oversharing. >If you can't opt out of your own highlights being shared, it could sort of make you want to highlight ridiculous things on purpose.

Anyhow, maybe authors would find it interesting to see what people highlighted… then again it might just give them the willies too.

The whole thing is just forced oversharing.

]]> By: info http://www.hbook.com/2010/05/blogs/read-roger/euwwww-used-e-books/#comment-9864 info Mon, 17 May 2010 02:44:28 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3499#comment-9864 >I think this feature might be useful for textbooks or other non-fiction, but for fiction it would certainly interrupt the experience (not to mention the creepiness). If the author wanted a certain phrase underlined, they would have done so themselves. >I think this feature might be useful for textbooks or other non-fiction, but for fiction it would certainly interrupt the experience (not to mention the creepiness). If the author wanted a certain phrase underlined, they would have done so themselves.

]]> By: Roger Sutton http://www.hbook.com/2010/05/blogs/read-roger/euwwww-used-e-books/#comment-9854 Roger Sutton Wed, 12 May 2010 16:28:46 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3499#comment-9854 >I poked around in Amazon FAQs and in the Kindle forums (now there's a scary place) to see if you can keep your highlights to yourself, and it looks like you can't, so long as you are backing up your reading to the Amazon servers. While I know that the provision of my highlights to other Kindle users is done without linking my name to them, it still feels intrusive and icky. Amazon (along with various social media) seems to view reading as a group activity, while I like to be left alone. >I poked around in Amazon FAQs and in the Kindle forums (now there's a scary place) to see if you can keep your highlights to yourself, and it looks like you can't, so long as you are backing up your reading to the Amazon servers. While I know that the provision of my highlights to other Kindle users is done without linking my name to them, it still feels intrusive and icky. Amazon (along with various social media) seems to view reading as a group activity, while I like to be left alone.

]]> By: punk http://www.hbook.com/2010/05/blogs/read-roger/euwwww-used-e-books/#comment-9853 punk Wed, 12 May 2010 15:14:32 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3499#comment-9853 >At this point, would you believe that they weren't collecting that info., even if they claimed to offer the option? >At this point, would you believe that they weren't collecting that info., even if they claimed to offer the option?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hbook.com/2010/05/blogs/read-roger/euwwww-used-e-books/#comment-9851 Anonymous Tue, 11 May 2010 21:10:34 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3499#comment-9851 >Besides being able to turn off the option of seeing other reader's underlines, can you also opt out of having your own highlighted phrases being sent back to The Man? >Besides being able to turn off the option of seeing other reader's underlines, can you also opt out of having your own highlighted phrases being sent back to The Man?

]]> By: Melinda http://www.hbook.com/2010/05/blogs/read-roger/euwwww-used-e-books/#comment-9850 Melinda Tue, 11 May 2010 21:00:04 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3499#comment-9850 >I thought the highlighted portion was going to be some spam that wanted to "increase your manhood" or some damn thing. <br /><br />Word verification: coitsins. Not going there. >I thought the highlighted portion was going to be some spam that wanted to "increase your manhood" or some damn thing.

Word verification: coitsins. Not going there.

]]> By: Punk http://www.hbook.com/2010/05/blogs/read-roger/euwwww-used-e-books/#comment-9849 Punk Tue, 11 May 2010 19:52:07 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3499#comment-9849 >Kindle, thy name is Big Brother.<br />Punk >Kindle, thy name is Big Brother.
Punk

]]> By: Nancy http://www.hbook.com/2010/05/blogs/read-roger/euwwww-used-e-books/#comment-9848 Nancy Tue, 11 May 2010 15:24:11 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3499#comment-9848 >Unsettling!<br /><br />But you are reminding me that it might be time for me to read THE CAINE MUTINY again. >Unsettling!

But you are reminding me that it might be time for me to read THE CAINE MUTINY again.

]]> By: Andrea http://www.hbook.com/2010/05/blogs/read-roger/euwwww-used-e-books/#comment-9847 Andrea Tue, 11 May 2010 14:56:08 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3499#comment-9847 >Now we know why all those passages Amazon claims are "popular highlights" got highlighted. They've all been highlighted by people like you who saw the passage, wondered why it was underlined, and clicked out of curiosity. >Now we know why all those passages Amazon claims are "popular highlights" got highlighted. They've all been highlighted by people like you who saw the passage, wondered why it was underlined, and clicked out of curiosity.

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