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Books The Kindle and Underlining
Posted by Charles Mudede on Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 3:29 PM
On my Kindle Highlights page:
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans de Waal You have 193 highlighted passages but we can only show 110 of them. What's this?
You have 6 notes
What's this?
For some books the publisher allows only a limited percentage of a book to be "clipped" and stored separately from the main body of the book, as normally happens when you add a highlight. If you exceed this limit then you will see fewer highlights on this website than you actually marked on your Kindle. Popular Highlights are not counted towards this clipping limit.Always, capitalism is about putting limits to access. Always, capitalism is about undermining limits to profits.
Our Inner Ape was no match for my highlights in this book:
What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series) by Ernst MayrWhat a shame.
You have 352 highlighted passages but we can only show 184 of them. What's this?
You have 6 notes
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It sounds like it's about a total percentage of the book rather than the number of highlights. Just highlight the first few and last few words of the quote you want to mark--you'll still be able to find it for later reference.
Although it's silly that you need a workaround for a book you have purchased.
Although it's silly that you need a workaround for a book you have purchased.
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Me me me look at me me me I'm so smart me me me neoliberalism me me capitalism me me me aren't you impressed me me me profound observation me me me me me me me.
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I'm up against this too, but I was told if you set your Notes and Highlights default to Public then the limitations are not there. Of course a week after puchase, I just figured out how to set the clock!
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One think I will say, is that I was just eReading outside the downtown Kent Starbucks after a ride on the Interurban Trail. I was in direct sun, 4pm, shining at about 50 degrees right in my face...and the e.Ink was still clear as day.
Crack that whip Jeff Bezos!!
Crack that whip Jeff Bezos!!
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Good Evening Charles,
I read "Guns, Germs & Steel" by Jared Diamond ages ago. Very good. I just finished "Love & Capital" by Mary Gabriel. Excellent. Wow, Marx & his family had many tragedies. It's largely an apolitical account of him, his wife Jenny and their three daughters. Check it out.
I read "Guns, Germs & Steel" by Jared Diamond ages ago. Very good. I just finished "Love & Capital" by Mary Gabriel. Excellent. Wow, Marx & his family had many tragedies. It's largely an apolitical account of him, his wife Jenny and their three daughters. Check it out.
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Upside: if they didn't have these limits fewer people would realize that their reading, writing, highlighting, etc. is being not just limited, but monitored, recorded, and stored, perhaps forever, by Amazon. And they will share it with . . .? Don't care about privacy? Plenty of totalitarian governments, criminals, terrorists, etc. would love to have that data and use it against you. And they'll get it. Maybe not yours, but other people who also said "I don't care, I don't have anything to hide."
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Actual books don't have any limits, except for physics: you can't quickly review all your highlighted passages. And if you tried to do something like share a significant portion of the book publicly, you'd still be violating copyright.
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Why would anyone write a physics textbook if everoney were going to share one copy, Madcap? Do you know how much work is involved in writing a physics textbook? It's not a blog. If you want stuff like that, you pay someone to produce it.
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