Digital or Print Books my Dilemma!

Digital or Print Books?
Dilemma!

This is a comment I posted to Amazon.

First of all let me say that the introduction of Match Book (I prefer to call it Matchbox) was a great IDEA.

But I could not edit my titles until yesterday since there was no new option available (for already published books) without editing almost the entire title.
 
But yesterday I got a WARNING from you that my book on Meditation would be taken away from the store since the Pricing of the Digital book was higher than the Print version.

I am not in agreement on this issue for number of reasons.

I will enumerate this for your consideration.

Number 1
People on the this side of the world have no access to digital books.
Less than 10% have Internet access (wired or wireless) but almost 90% have cell phones.

Number 2
Even those who have cell phones 80% do not know how to use the phone for digital access and Internet.
This is mainly due to lack of command in English.

Number 3
Due to above reasons I would prefer  to have the Print form less expensive than the Digital form.
Not all Titles (my choice) but a few of them.

Number 4
I am conceptually for Paperless World (save the rain forest) but we are not yet ready.

Number 5
Sri-Lankan government is politically backward and give FREE books to all primary students (I call it a political gimmick) which are about 30 years outdated (more in Science).
 
For example if I ask  students when they entire the university how the Island of Sri-Lanka was formed in a geographical point of view, none can answer.
 
Geography is not taught properly.

They only know what is in the books (PRINTED) given FREE by the government and none of the books are in Digital form and the contractors (I do not call them publishers) will never allow them to get converted to Digital form in a hurry.

Number 6
Unlike India Our Cell Phone Region is banned for Amazon to enter due to political reason (they fear American Influence).
The know it is going to be  a complete white wash in cricketing parlance.

For a trial period I want the Print Form (let me decide) to be cheaper.
 
I have not targeted any book at the moment with Sri-Lankans in mind.
I just write for fun and not solely on monetary value.
 
Number 7
That is why I like the Match Book (I prefer t5o call it Matchbox) since a wealthy reader from US can donate the print form, ideally  to a KID in Sri-Lanka, since he may not need it in his book shelf.
It will ignite a chain reaction of reading habits (in English) in this part of the world starved of good books (strike a match of enthusiasm).

Call it Matchbox, will YOU!

In that context Amazon does not lose much (postage is Heavy if the reader decides to post it to a institution here) on the deal to begin with.
 
I will have few targeted BOOKS of mine  FREE in Match Book, so a poor reader gets a chance to read what a wealthy reader reads in Americas.


On a minor note my download speed was cut down (I used more than 20 GiB of downloads this month and I am punished for my small indulgence ) to 5kb /sec  (I pay for 50 units/sec).

 Visitors here know I download Linux distributions for testing.

I was all up yesterday night updating my Titles and Upload speed is much slower, mind you.

Your 5 day deadline was like a shock to me.
 
Thank god I did (NOT) have a heart attack but I enjoyed every minute of my exercise.
 
I am joking!

Parafox with much appreciation of all what you do in Amazon Books.
 
Thank you Guys/Girls at Amazon.

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YUMI-Your Universal Multiboot Installer-Not So Yummy!

YUMI-Your Universal Multiboot Installer-Not So Yummy!

YumI in Japanese is arrows but in Linux is Your Universal Multiboot Installer.

I downloaded both Mini and and Meteor from Linuxtracker.

Mini is over 800 MiB and and the Meteor was of Gorilla size, nearly 4 GiB.

Both work in only on windows.
That was the downside for me.

After three days of trial and error, I managed to get a hang of it but it allowed only a selected lot of multiple Linux distributions and all the old windows operating system including XP.
Some of the latest and my favorites Korora were not there.
Take what is offered and not what I really wanted in my Flash Drives.
This problem was there with UnetBootIn and I figured out how to make best use of it and install what I want.
It can be done in Linux since it only wants the path to the iso file and Flash Drive mounted.The GRUB is taken care of.

It worked well with windows 7.

However it was very slow indeed.

Finally, I decided to install the Linux version of Multiboot which is just over 200 MiB but can be used only on Ubuntu based Linux distributions.

UnetBootIn can be used in some of KDE Linux (not in SuSe) and the USB creators of all the KDE platforms are generally very bad at making a Bootable USB.

So my Peppermint 4 installed it in half an over in its terminal mode.

In initial instruction came in French but with my limited ability in French, I got it running.

Unlike the windows derivative, the work I did in windows on three days was accomplished in one hour.
In fact I erased it, and did it twice to get a hang of it.
So in half hour of work, I  got my first USB with multiple Linux distributions (of my choice) installed.
It let you drop the image into its lower counter of the dialog box and the work is done in a terminal with checking of data and updating the GRUB2.
GRUB2 is the best boot loader currently available by passing dos in windows platform.

I had a Flash drive (Verbatum) which had a file that did not allow full formatting (about 4 MIB of proprietary data) and installing of Grub 2 on its master boot section.

What I did was to install gparted in windows mode (Mini multiboot-v2- YUMI application was used in graphic mode) and booted it with its GRUB file (as a Dos exe file) in  and to my luck, the Multiboot (much faster than UnetBootIn) shifted the boot section to another sector and hid the unwanted file out of sight, which was blocking MultiSystem utility. so that I could get on with the installing, Knoppix, DSL, JoliOS, and EasyPeasy with 512 persistent for Knoppix and another 750 FREE for any data.

So if you have a Flash drive that does not boot due to proprietary files, MULTIBOOT is the answetr both in window's mode (unfortunately windows to begin with and Linux to shift the boot record (in his case GRUB2) to a bootable sector.

All this is done by PENDRIVE Linux and my first bootable (apart from Puppy Linux) was made on Pendrive Linux in 2009 using windows operating system.
I still have that FLASH Drive as a souvenir.

Now that I rarely use windows, thank you very much, Pendrive Linux.

I used Windows 7 (paid copy but never registered) for this work and during this period windows search engine was eavesdropping on my computer and to my annoyance it warned me about 100 times.
Interestingly it downloaded the driver for my old machine which was not available on first boot.
Microsoft should know that I do not violate its monopoly but I have over 300 Linux distributions in my archives.
Over 30 distributions in Flash Drives for demonstration purposes.
With this MultiBoot System of Pendrive, I will be carrying 0ver 100 Linux distributions in Flash drives including XP which will be soon defunct soon with JavA Zero effect.
Mind you the name of this blog site is Linux 100.

They (PENDRIVE) are looking for translators for translating the documentation and please join them and HELP them.

I hope somebody would translate this blog piece of mine (ideally with added details) for those who cannot understand English or do not use English as a first language.

Thanks a LOT Pendrive Linux.

This is posted with a Flash drive (Multboot System) booted with KNOPPIX, one of my favorite Linux Live distributions.