READING OVER YOUR SHOULDER

Reading over your shoulder

Reading over your shoulder

Introduction

The reading is changing. Popular portable players and include Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader (formerly the Freestyle), and the iRex Iliad, with more on the road. Another new option has recently announced a service based on their application in Google Book Search, the giant search engine has also recently announced a way to make some of their books available for download from the Sony e-book reader. The current crop of players is much more successful than the Rocket E-book of a decade earlier. Kindle sales are estimated at 2.2 million at the end of 2010.1 and the whole E-book sales doubled between 4Q07 and 4Q08. (Michael, 2009, 78)

Read over your shoulder

Meanwhile, Google Book Search now includes 7 million pounds, nearly all 11 states; Google Books is the largest library in the state. Traditionally, reading the book was a very private; you can always buy books cons of paper money, which eliminates tracking. No line drive may allow anonymity, however, because all these services require a digital rights management (DRM) to prevent piracy. Each service is also "committed" in fact; an outlet for Kindle is its wireless connection to allow users to buy books on impulse from anywhere. Thus, each service can track what you read, page by page and paragraph, even by paragraph. Amazon Books and recommend new each visit: when you approach your site, you get a home page, which reflects his latest book browsing and buying. Video services do the same. Suppose that the suppliers of book studying each page you read?

Already in the First World War, the government has used data from public libraries for purposes of security. In 1918, asked libraries to remove materials on explosives and announce the names of those who asked. Similarly, during the Second World War, the government has asked libraries to isolate the explosives and books on cryptography and tell law enforcement about the applications of them. (Michael, 2009, 78)

However, what most people remember about libraries and the U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the episode in the 1950s, When McCarthy ran rampant. In the 1940s, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy led a series of congressional hearings to find out the communist influence on American citizens. Libraries have been instructed to file the transport, who had borrowed books on communism. In a keynote speech at Dartmouth in 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower had to say, "Do not be afraid to go to your local library and read all the books, provided that any document not to offend our own ideas of decency ... How will we defeat communism Unless we know what is it? "As a result, 48 states now have laws declaring that the movement documents are confidential library. (Michael, 2009, 78)

However, attempts to law enforcement for information on the movement continue. In 1990, an abandoned child in Decatur, Texas, led the local district attorney to ask the local library for the names of all those who had borrowed a book on ...