Update Your Shelf: BitLit Offers Access To Ebook Versions of Books You Own 82
First time accepted submitter Peter Hudson (3717535) writes Cory Doctorow writes on boingboing.net "BitLit works with publishers to get you free or discounted access to digital copies of books you own in print: you use the free app for Android and iOS to take a picture of the book's copyright page with your name printed in ink, and the publisher unlocks a free or discounted ebook version. None of the Big Five publishers participate as yet, but indies like O'Reilly, Berrett-Koehler, Red Wheel Weiser, Other Press, Greystone, Coach House, Triumph, Angry Robot, Chicago Review, Dundurn, and PM Press (publishers of my book The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow) are all in."
Re:What could possibly go wrong (Score:1, Insightful)
Just signing the acetate with a pen (normal, cd-writing pen etc). Hold the sheet over the book and take the picture.
Not a chance (Score:4, Insightful)
Write your name with a pen? (Score:5, Insightful)
Really? Some of us really enjoy our books -- as someone who has a personal library with ~4,000 books, I would be appalled if I had to write on any of their pages with a pen.
Not because I am planning on selling any of them, but because to me, I just see it as damaging the book.
A good many of them are autographed or antiquarian books, and the last thing I'd ever want to do is sign them with a *pen*.
I find the whole deal oddly disturbing -- maybe it's just me as a bibliophile, but writing on a book sounds like a sacrilege.