I don't have, but - until I read the following - had been considering purchasing, an electronic book 'reader'.
In searching the Internet for William Gaddis' AGAPE, AGAPE, I noticed the following 'additional details' appended to the listing for the Adobe eBooks edition:
Adobe PDF eBook Rights Copying not allowed Printing not allowed Lending not allowed Reading aloud not allowedThe first two or three seem straightforward enough (the lending restriction seems a bit severe; it's hard to imagine not lending out a book).
BUT can it possibly be true that, should I purchase an eBook copy of this (or any other book with similar 'rights' attached), I would be agreeing (in a legally binding way) that I would not read the book aloud to a friend / loved one / family member?
Do people actually, by buying such eBooks, agree to such a restriction in (what to me is an essential component in) the life of a piece of literature?
Chris Bruce, more thankful than ever for his 'outsider borrowing privileges' at the local university library, in Kiel, Germany -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
