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or wipe your cherished copy of 1984 ;)

• mannykannot 7y ago
  Ha! though 'Farenheit 451' would have made for an even more perfectly ironic incident, had Amazon erased it instead (that book was the first thing I thought of when I heard that Amazon was making a reader called Kindle.)
  • chrisweekly 7y ago
    parent may have been referring to actual incident (sorry no citation handy) in the early days of kindle devices, in which 1984 had its contents remotely altered (ie, subtly changed, not deleted). to me that's the most apt conceivable book title to make a pretty chilling point about trustworthy media.
    • comex 7y ago
      No, it was deleted: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am...
      • chrisweekly 7y ago
        Whoops! Thanks for the correction! I misremembered.