{"id":1304,"date":"2004-09-21T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T11:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/09\/21\/fair_use_restraints_dampen_my_love_affair_with_audiblecom.html"},"modified":"2004-09-21T11:01:59","modified_gmt":"2004-09-21T11:01:59","slug":"fair_use_restraints_dampen_my_love_affair_with_audiblecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/09\/21\/fair_use_restraints_dampen_my_love_affair_with_audiblecom.html","title":{"rendered":"fair use restraints dampen my love affair with audible.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have 741 books in my room.  Paper.  Almost all used from the beginning.  I have obsessively documented them in Excel (although i twitch with excitement over the possibilities every time <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/~masmith\/\">Marc Smith<\/a> appears with his little barcode reader\/Aura).  I love lending my books to people, provided that they follow my neurotic rules (particularly: no removing of any object found inserted into book and please insert some sort of tender love and attention&#8230; strawberry jam is fine).<\/p>\n<p>When i started listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.com\">Audible.com<\/a>, i professed my love and convinced all of my friends that this was the best thing since sliced bread.  I rave about a book that i read or tell a friend that they must read it.  Then, the inevitable horror comes.  They ask, simply and politely, may i borrow it?  I turn bright red, lower my eyes and mumble apologies, stammering out that i can&#8217;t&#8230;  that the technology forbids me&#8230; that fair use is dead&#8230; digital first sale requires that i sell the whole book collection, not just the one&#8230; aa files can&#8217;t be transferred&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It sucks, really.  What the hell is the use of a book that you can&#8217;t lend?  I&#8217;m completely devastated.  My role of friendly hub librarian is being destroyed by technology.  The joy i give people by lending my books is being replaced by embarrassment.  I find myself stifling any speech about the books i read on Audible, not wanting to face the inevitable interaction.  Will all the lenders in the world find their positions in the social stratosphere usurped by capitalists?<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t i just have the digital equivalent to my little Excel file that says &#8220;lent to XX&#8221;?  Why can&#8217;t i just be forced to re-acquire the book before lending it out again?  I do this all the time (or i&#8217;m forced to buy a new copy myself&#8230; i&#8217;m on copy #17 of Stone Butch Blues).  I want a lending solution for digital technology damnit!<\/p>\n<p>I find it hard to tell you<br \/>\nCause I find it hard to take<br \/>\nWhen people run in circles<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a mad world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have 741 books in my room. Paper. Almost all used from the beginning. I have obsessively documented them in Excel (although i twitch with excitement over the possibilities every time Marc Smith appears with his little barcode reader\/Aura). I love lending my books to people, provided that they follow my neurotic rules (particularly: no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}