[lit-ideas] Re: What's THIS ?!?
- From: "Veronica Caley" <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:40:47 -0400
Lending not allowed
Reading aloud not allowed
Shows the silliness of too many rules, laws, regulations that are
inherently unenforceable..
Veronica Caley
Milford, MI
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Subject: [lit-ideas] What's THIS ?!?
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 allowed
The 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
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