Comments on: You can’t take it with you…or can you? http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/07/you-can%e2%80%99t-take-it-with-you%e2%80%a6or-can-you/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Jeannie http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/07/you-can%e2%80%99t-take-it-with-you%e2%80%a6or-can-you/comment-page-1/#comment-18740 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:33:41 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/07/you-can%e2%80%99t-take-it-with-you%e2%80%a6or-can-you/#comment-18740 As a writer/researcher, I need this. Seriously. Some of the indices in my books are more complete than others, and some of my books don't even have indices. If I could digitize them quickly and run a search for keywords, it would be WONDERFUL!!!

]]> By: Gilbert J. Avila http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/07/you-can%e2%80%99t-take-it-with-you%e2%80%a6or-can-you/comment-page-1/#comment-18739 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:27:34 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/07/you-can%e2%80%99t-take-it-with-you%e2%80%a6or-can-you/#comment-18739 i want an e-reader that's flexible and exudes a smell of pulp paper

]]> By: Kerry Gans http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/07/you-can%e2%80%99t-take-it-with-you%e2%80%a6or-can-you/comment-page-1/#comment-18732 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:05:55 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/07/you-can%e2%80%99t-take-it-with-you%e2%80%a6or-can-you/#comment-18732 I like this device. Since I've already bought and paid for these paper books, no one is losing out on royalties. It's perfect for libraries or people like Melissa and myself with more books than space.

This is a device that will become obselete fairly quickly. Once people scan in their existing books, and the majority of new books sold are e-books, this device will vanish. I say let it ride. Most "pirates" want to download something free that someone else has done the hard work on.

I think this device will do more to save and circulate older, out of print books than it will to create pirated copies of new books.

]]> By: Melissa http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/07/you-can%e2%80%99t-take-it-with-you%e2%80%a6or-can-you/comment-page-1/#comment-18731 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:56:14 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/07/you-can%e2%80%99t-take-it-with-you%e2%80%a6or-can-you/#comment-18731 I love it! I have a house full of boxes of books, because I don't have shelf space for them. I clean out every few years and sell 500 hundred or so to the used bookstore, but I still have boxes and boxes and boxes. I would LOVE to put those books in digital form so they're USEFUL and ACCESSIBLE to me.

]]> By: Angela Korra'ti http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/07/you-can%e2%80%99t-take-it-with-you%e2%80%a6or-can-you/comment-page-1/#comment-18730 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:37:36 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/07/you-can%e2%80%99t-take-it-with-you%e2%80%a6or-can-you/#comment-18730 It seems clever enough but I think the ultimate easier answer would just be "lose the DRM on electronic copies, and you won't have to scan in the physical ones!"

And I say this as both an e-pubbed author AND a voracious reader of both print and electronic. And an owner of both a Nook and an iPhone, with a bunch of different books on each!

]]> By: Tim http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/07/you-can%e2%80%99t-take-it-with-you%e2%80%a6or-can-you/comment-page-1/#comment-18729 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:27:53 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/07/you-can%e2%80%99t-take-it-with-you%e2%80%a6or-can-you/#comment-18729 The machines will do the thinking for the weak-willed masses.

I say go back to lo-fi, ovaltine and keep reading books…. this from a uni-tasker (who still writes with a typewriter).

Miriam, check out my blog at http://noirinmurder.blogspot.com/.

]]> By: Vodka Mom http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/07/you-can%e2%80%99t-take-it-with-you%e2%80%a6or-can-you/comment-page-1/#comment-18728 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:21:14 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/07/you-can%e2%80%99t-take-it-with-you%e2%80%a6or-can-you/#comment-18728 that little personal connection is amazing.

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