Why aren't you being environmenfally conscious and reading

>>8952197
The books were already printed, why let them go to waste? They weren't made to order.

>>8952197
because humanity > environment and I do not respect the rights of trees

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>>8952201

>>8952197
Books can be recycled and are easily biodegradable. Plastic e-readers on the other hand do more damage to the environment when thrown away. So fuck off beta

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>>8952201
At least /pol/ and /r9k/ could make a concerted effort not to be so obvious

>>8952206
Kant, pls go

>>8952214
*Rand

>>8952197
The Amazon Kindle is an ebook reading computer that poses very serious dangers to society. When you purchase a Kindle, you are subject to Amazon's Digital Restriction Management (DRM), a system designed to take away rights you would typically have when reading a book.

"This malicious device designed to attack the traditional freedoms of readers: There's the freedom to acquire a book anonymously, paying cash — impossible with the Kindle for all well-known recent books. There's the freedom to give, lend, or sell a book to anyone you wish — blocked by DRM and unjust licenses. Then there's the freedom to keep a book — denied by a back door for remote deletion of books." — Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation
Your basic rights to share, sell, or donate a book are subject to fights with Amazon over the legal and technological restrictions they try to impose. If you try to exercise these rights anyway, you might be violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) -- which could bring severe criminal penalties -- and Amazon can try to revoke your ability to use all the books you've bought.

After you read a physical book, you can give it to a friend or sell it. Not so with a Kindle book. You can donate a physical book to a library -- an institution whose purpose is to continue sharing it for as long as possible. The Kindle's DRM, however, is designed explicitly to prevent sharing and the public benefit that institutions like libraries provide.[1]

Amazon has a web page about e-book lending, which explains that only certain "lendable" books ("lendability" being determined by the publisher) can be lent at most one time, only within the United States, for a period of exactly 14 days. That's a pathetic (and failed) attempt to replicate what was always a very natural aspect of printed books.

In terms of strict analogy, Kindle DRM even prohibits you from moving your books to another shelf. Any DRMed book you buy for the Kindle is forever locked to your Kindle until Amazon decides otherwise (and they show no sign of wanting to give up that control). If somebody else makes another ebook reader (one that perhaps also gives authors a better deal) readers are stuck with the Kindle, unless they want to repurchase the books they've already bought. Like Apple and the iPod, Amazon uses DRM to create lock-in: they don't want you using competing products from other companies.

But the DRM affects you even if you don't try to copy or move your books. Amazon knows what Amazon books you have on your Kindle, and we strongly suspect that it also has the back door capability to view and delete non-Amazon books remotely as well. This is not conspiracy -- we know this capability exists because Amazon has previously deleted copies of 1984 from users' Kindles. It is only supposed to do this if it gets a court order, but do you want your books to be vulnerable to that?

Because most e-readers hurt my eyes and I buy used books in the first place, they already were made
If the printed book market dies enough and everyone uses e-readers, I can still be buying old used books
What is this thread

>>8952224
This is why we have decided to rename the Kindle as the Swindle, and we invite you all to join us in tagging the Kindle and all of the the DRMed Kindle ebooks on Amazon.com with the phrase "Kindle Swindle."

[1] Even when non-Kindle ebook DRM schemes claim to let you "lend" ebooks to a friend subject to their terms, this isn't really lending. Your friend needs to identify herself to the ebook seller and enter into their own contract with the seller, and to have a particular kind of device. They aren't borrowing the book from you so much as entering into a peculiar and limited contract with the book seller.

>>8952209

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

>>8952224
>>8952229

>the only ereader is the kindle

>>8952226
What kind of e-readers have you tried? I had this problem too when I tried to read from LCD screen. But Kindle paperwhite is just perfect for me.