Sending home my book reports
No secret around this house. I’m in favour of the ebook revolution; why else would I own three dedicated readers and three tablets, along with a number of laptops that can “open” content. Today, I learned that the Adobe Digital Editions 4 software has been sending back notifications to the “mother ship”.
Not just their content… All ebook content. Although the company hasn’t (yet) responded to some very pointed questions from the industry, the answer should be very interesting. Will they play the “marketing study” card, or the “we didn’t know our software could do that” ploy? Will they use the “it was all anonymous and just meta-tags” excuse developed by certain US alphabet soup departments? I’m still waiting.
Happened across a box of filed papers, from half a lifetime ago. The history of my life in the workforce. Old utility bills; the phone company NEVER got my name right, despite several tries. A serious retrospective on “my life as a student”, in an envelope of transcripts.
Funny story attached to that envelope. The university doesn’t send official transcripts to students; a potential for mark edits. As a workaround, a request on behalf of a fictitious company, mailed to a generic mail drop, accomplished the forbidden. Didn’t improve my lackadaisical result set, but it didn’t mean much IRL (in real life). Nobody cared that I had slept through a full two semesters of music history. Except me: I’ve restudied that content, on my own time and dime, since then. As for an intro math course… F is a possible algebraic variable, just like X, Y and Z.
And other than the transcripts, the whole box is going straight to the city fire pits.
