Touching the night talk, every day nonsense and game-related farts, ghost things, new things.
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There was a rumor circulating this morning that the Kindle was going to exit the Chinese market. The current situation is that the kindle in the two major e-commerce platform flagship stores disappeared, one overall out of stock, we can not draw from this phenomenon "Kindle withdrew from the Chinese market" conclusion, but at least can see that it is not doing well.
Last year (2021) in July, Amazon shut down our e-commerce service, leaving only cross-border trade and Kindle services, and now Kindle is watching the storm again. I have a Kindle Paperwhite 2, which I bought in 2014, and I've read a lot of books on it, from The Complete Dragons to Hyperion to Baseball Heroes comics. After slowly not using it, one is that I feel that I prefer paper books, and the other is that the Micro USB charging port is a bit out of the trend.
As for the "bubble noodle artifact" ridiculed by netizens, I have never tried it, afraid of water vapor and overheating, and I am not willing to be with this kind of "paragraph". When we were young, we played Nokia mobile phones as sandbags, throwing them into the sky a few meters high to play "calling" - this is a sandbag game, one person throws a sandbag into the sky, and the other person catches it - the mobile phone falls down without any problems.
The flagship Store's Kindle is in a massive out-of-stock state
I don't want to talk about my memories of the Kindle in this night talk, they don't matter. What worries me even more is that if one day the Kindle does exit the market, will the e-books we buy still exist?
This matter has actually been discussed in different fields, and Hideo Kojima has also published articles discussing the problem of physical and digital versions of games before. If one day PSN doesn't dry and the Xbox Store doesn't, will our game still be there? GoG stores have previously pushed "DRM-free" (Digital Rights Management), almost without setting up "network detection" and "genuine detection" after purchase, so that players can buy games that belong to themselves. But GOG is not doing well at present, and "DRM-free" cannot make a large number of consumers abandon the convenient Steam and epic that send games and turn to the arms of GOG.
The GOG platform's games are DRM-free, but there have been previous forks like Killer: Annual Edition
But seriously, whether it's a game, a book, a movie, or a music, whether or not to have a DRM limit is a matter of discussion, and buying something on a digital platform always makes me a little uneasy, like renting (and in fact, basically), and physical books, physical discs, or at least downloaded DRM-free games are at least their own.
Although physical media also has corresponding problems - such as the aging of optical discs, the damage of paper books, and the cost of storage, it is more reassuring than the digital version... Probably.
I've always retained a little affection for physical items, and I lost a lot of valuable cards when I played the digital version of pokémon cards before, and when I replaced the client. Then there was the previous time when playing "World of Warcraft", one of the trumpets was stolen and hung up the script, and then it seemed to be blocked, which also made me lose a lot of things. These memories make me not like the current "blockchain" or "NFT" (non-homogeneous token) transactions – yes, it has a record, but you still don't have a good way to stop the dumping of a platform, if an NFT game stops operating, the props associated with it will not disappear directly, but the value of the transaction will gradually return to zero.
My colleague Mr. Yuan Weiteng also has a Kindle, and he watches "Harry Potter" on the subway every day.
I don't particularly want to talk about NFTs, but let's talk about kindles – if you have a common Kindle like me and have bought a lot of books on it, my advice is to find a way to lift the DRM and save the books you bought locally. A better way is to read them quickly, and a book is meaningful only if it is read.