Will they please stop publishing great books!

So if you build a library of hundreds of books in the Kindle and you have a hardware malfunction that causes you to lose all of your books, do you have to buy them again?

E-readers will become giveaways someday in the not too distant future.
 
Quote from trendlover:

No used book market. Maybe in the future after a book is through kindle for so much time, it will be allowed to be sold by the buyer?
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What? Zero delta.
 
Quote from bigarrow:

Me too. One feature I wish it had is the ability to load ebooks from books I've already bought from Amazon.
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Agreed, or even better, books I have already bought from anyone.
 
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So if you build a library of hundreds of books in the Kindle and you have a hardware malfunction that causes you to lose all of your books, do you have to buy them again?

E-readers will become giveaways someday in the not too distant future.
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I don't know how this works and is a good question.
 
The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter (Science Essentials) (Hardcover)
by Helen R. Quinn (Author), Yossi Nir (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Missi...bs_sr_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238332411&sr=8-7

Antimatter (Hardcover)
by Frank Close (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Antimatter-Fr...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238332411&sr=8-1

The Quinn/Nir book is outstanding. The effort that they put in explaining the subject is remarkable. This is layman science witting at the perfect level. It should be the standard by which science books are measured.

The Close book is a very quick read and together with the other book gives you a solid [laymans] grounding in understanding on one of the deepest mysteries in nature. It is more mathematical.

Both are must owns in a science library.
 
Quote from trendlover:

:) No, I was thinking secondary market.
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Well, I guess this could work if somehow two kindles could talk to each other, and there was some mechanism to guarantee removal of the originating eBook. But this would also solve the "lending a kindle book" problem, so not sure what the issue is at Amazon.
 
This has to be the strangest book I have ever seen written on the history of mathematics. I perused through it at Borders last night:

Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity (Belknap Press) (Hardcover)

http://www.amazon.com/Naming-Infini...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238601408&sr=8-1

It is not so much that mysticism is related to mathematics that makes it strange to me. There are lots of examples of that in the entire history of mathematics. What is strange is that repeatedly "Name Worshiping" can put the human mind in a state where creativity is highly enhanced.

Strange....But still worth a look.
 
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