25 April 2016
Recently, BoingBoing shared a news article about Chris Meadows, who discovered that his copy of A Fire Upon the Deep had vanished from his nook, "effectively stolen," as he put it. It had been replaced by an off-brand CliffNotes study guide to the same book, but not actually the book itself. Which is sort of like having your dinner replaced with a photo of it. We'll come back to the food metaphor later, but first, the properly ridiculous part: When he contacted Barnes & Noble about what is a pretty simple glitch of a problem, their response was a sort of vague shrug and a suggestion that maybe he could just buy the book again?
