February 28, 2011
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Doing, Going, and Being
I’ve only been home for one of the last five weekends, so I’ve had little to write here. I’ve lead quite the lucky life for those weeks with the schedule looking something like this:
- Ski trip to Tahoe
- Puerta Vallarta, Mexico
- Another ski trip to Tahoe
- Relaxing at the Apartment
- And another ski trip to Tahoe
And any extra time has been spent learning Arabic, working on my board game, not watching the Oscars, making my way through Battlestar Galactica, preparing new comedy material, and holding a literary love affair with my Kindle, whom I’ve named Bindle.
I’m 100% against DRM protected content until there are better consumer rights, which is why I didn’t think I’d ever purchase a Kindle. Then I realized that most of the great literature I want to read is public domain, and that if I bought a Kindle there would be no need to spend money and lose shelf space reading literature that is freely accesible.
If it is available in the public domain, I download it for free, otherwise I purchase the physical book. It is a system I quite like.
Comments (2)
I still kind of like having shelves and shelves of dusty books to show off to people who drop by.
LOOK AT MY KNOWLEDGE!
Actually was thinking about buying a kindle myself but I haven’t even thought yet of looking into compatibility issues that might arise with all of my old ebooks… This is a good issue that I should look into.