Comments on: Evening Reading: 7/18/09

By: Trumwill

Trumwill — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:06:00 +0000

My opinion about the Wallflowers is the same. I guess I'm a bit different in that I listen to Pandora and Last.fm precisely to find new music. So I like it when they go off the rails a little bit.Just about everything I hear about the Kindle (and Amazon's plan for it) becomes yet another reason for me not to buy one. I like the concept, but they can't seem to decide what they want to be.I'm mulling over a(nother) post on the Kindle soon. I am curious, as a Kindle user, would you consider it better or worse if rather than "selling" books they had a sort of Rhapsody/Netflix/library sort of service where you checked out a certain number of books at a time for a monthly fee? If they went that route, I would more strongly consider buying one. I think the biggest source of discomfort for me is that they are "selling" that they can (and do) sort of "take back" in the future at their (or the publisher's) discretion. If they were up front about it being a loan and the books didn't cost $10 a piece, I could probably go along with that.I don't know that the publishers would, though.

By: Kent

Kent — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:55:00 +0000

I used to like the Wallflowers OK, but I've grown bored with them. I'm trying to surgically target my station to stuff like Drag the River, Two Dollar Pistol, Avett Bros, Bottle Rockets, etc. I love it when unexpected good stuff shows up there- Ben Harper's Diamonds on the Inside being a great example.My thing with the Kindle is based largely on the cost. They charge a fortune for those things. If they want to give me one and make me see ads, fine. But they can't make coin on the box and the book and still toss ads at me.

By: trumwill

trumwill — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:02:00 +0000

Re: WallflowersIt's not as much of a stretch as you might think. I used to follow a lot of local sorta.alt.country bands and at least a couple cited Wallflowers as a contemporary. Granted, they were more on the rock side of things, but they played at local country bars and whatnot.Re: KindleOn instinct I agree with you. I subscribed to Yahoo Mail for a year but declined to renew my subscription because despite my paying for the service they still sent me advertising emails. There was just something inherently wrong with that to me.On the other hand, I am a on-again-off-again comic book reader and despite paying good money for the comics, the vast majority of them had ads in them. And it never really bothered me. So I'm not sure why I would get so worked up about the Kindle doing the same. But to the extent that it provides yet another reason for me not to buy one, it does "work me up".