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One Day - a tale of DRM gone mad
It is with some satisfaction that I can honestly say I feel not the least little bit of remorse or concern at having just made an illegal download of a ripped copy on .pdf of the book "One Day" by David Nicholls. If you know how I feel about authors working hard and deserving to be rewarded and recognized for that then this could come as a surprise, so let me explain the background Last Christmas the fabulous Aero bought me a marvelous BeBook Neo to replace or complement my aging Sony E-reader. This was a "Kindle beater" in my opinion, since it not only had wi-fi built in, but a touch screen also! Since then a quick search or look at the tag for E-readers will reveal that the purchase of E-books has been anything BUT straightforwards, in the first instance involving an "all-nighter" as I learned what was involved (everything from a predicated Microshaft framework to a requirement to run Adobe Digital Editions. So in the run up to the holiday I had bought a copy of the Big Issue and read about "One Day" as a possible favourite book for the nation, at which point Aero tells me she has read it, told me about it, and that the female lead rides a bicycle! Immediately I want this tear jerker for some holiday reading and set about buying an E-book copy (since that way it only costs a fiver). Two or three hours later I collapse exhausted, no E-book bought through no fault of mine own.... later that night I search with E-mule and find a seed to start a download. This morning the book is downloaded and I can transfer it to my Sony, BeBook, or anywhere else I choose to read it from. There is no way I am suffering further waste of my time and anguish for the sake of a fiver of which Mr Nicholls sees a good deal less than that! I may as well send him a few bob or buy him a drink when/if I see him! A pretty compelling case for the removal of DRM - that way I should have been able to complete the transaction and pay far more readily than this! 08:20 AM | 0 Comments | Tags: David Nicholls, DRM, E-reader, BeBook, publication, disillusion, angry, copyrightGet the Bones out of the Flesh!
My darling daughter was told of the engagement yesterday morning (the first to know!).
She has been a wonderful bag of excitement ever since and on top form. As some might notice I think she has great potential as a creative person and (who knows) maybe even poetry. Her first effort was very impressive to me, even though I am her Dad others have said as much.
Well when we went to our favourite restaurant last night
she was very eager that they know about the engagement (they are after all a family restaurant and we eat there regularly so they all know us). We had finished the meal and still it had not revealed what we were celebrating. In her eagerness for us to say it and be done she used a sudden and impulsive turn of phrase;
"GO ON NOW, GET THE BONES OUT OF THE FLESH!"
And we were all very impressed by her `turn of phrase` - she immediately followed up our astonishment by telling us that we were never to use the phrase without attribution that they were her words - she was very specific about that as only a nine year old daughter can be - I'm even prouder of her for asserting "copyright" to her utterance than I am by the almost Donne like turn of phrase!
PS I scroogled to check the originality, and this was all I turned up pertinent so far as I could see!
PPS Happy birthday today to;
Cathy
Robert
The Sunday Program on Radio Four
08:33 AM | 0 Comments | Tags: Robert, copyright, family, kids, children, Isabel, Donne