Justin Gawronski, a 17-year-old from the Detroit area, was reading “1984” on his Kindle for a summer assignment and lost all his notes and annotations when the file vanished. “They didn’t just take a book back, they stole my work,” he said.
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Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle Devices - NYTimes.com (via biorhythmist)
This whole book-deleting debacle has absolutely guaranteed I will not be buying a Kindle, or any other electronic book reader, until I can be sure that I own the source file after I pay for it. A wonderful piece of technology and a concept with which I’m completely on board… but no. That’s right, Amazon. I said you guaranteed it.
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