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yourapostasy ◴[] No.45095695[source]
I love libraries of all kinds, and wish LLM training development will drive even greater preservation and digitization efforts. I sure hope someone preserves this collection, installs a dry fire extinguisher system, and digitizes into the Internet Archive what doesn’t already exist online.
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hopelite ◴[] No.45096453[source]
It would be something a whole organization and public campaign would need to be built around.

We have also already traversed, unwittingly, into a post-ownership world and the IP issue would need to be dealt with since it was not dealt with to this point and the thieves have gotten away with robbery by default. Books were one of the first steps into a world where you do not own anything you buy, you merely possess it until the IP owner decides to revoke their authority for everything you think you own. I recall the ironic incident in around 2013 where Amazon without permission simply deleted people’s copies of a purchased book from their Kindles due to some IP dispute with a publisher, without even providing notice. The book … 1984, by George Orwell.

It is why in understand if people “pirate” or maybe better put, seize their rights.

Something you cannot share, trade, exchange, gift, pass down, sell, or often even move… is not something you own.

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exe34 ◴[] No.45096652[source]
all my Amazon books were dedrm'ed and my kindle does not connect to the WiFi. I've stopped buying from Amazon since they removed the transfer via usb option.
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1. lotsoweiners ◴[] No.45098074[source]
What was different about transfer via usb vs “send to Kindle” ? I’ve always used the latter.
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2. lazyasciiart ◴[] No.45099287[source]
Probably the requirement to be online.
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3. exe34 ◴[] No.45106518[source]
yeah and also I ran dedrm before putting anything on the Kindle.