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by Jeff
Image meta text: You know what really helps an existential crisis? Wondering how much shelf space to leave for a Terry Pratchett collection.
Existentialism is a philosophy revolving around the individual and trying to understand and derive meaning through society and the world at large is an impossible task. The Existential girl in this comic in speaking about the struggles of the individual and the other character is talking about his Kindle.
Kindle is a eBook reader sold by Amazon.com.
Discworld is a fantasy series by Terry Pratchett, there are 36 novels in total. Because there are so many books in the ever-expanding universe created by Terry Pratchett, the image text mentions that one can never have enough space on the shelf because there will always be more novels written.
DRM is short for Digital Rights Management, which is a way for content providers to protect their content. The use of DRM is widely criticized by consumers.
What do you think? Am I right about Existentialism? Do you hate DRM or love Terry Pratchett?
August 20th, 2009
I’d like to think that my library shelves are like the library at Unseen University: larger than they appear and connected in some metaphysical way to all other libraries.
Thanks for the analysis. DRM kinda bites.
August 20th, 2009
Not to mention, with Pratchett’s recent medical problems, we just don’t know how many more will be released. But it’s sure to not be enough.
September 5th, 2009
Real Shelf space or virtual shelf space on the kindle?
September 5th, 2009
Hate DRM, don’t care about Pratchett.
Great site BTW.
May 21st, 2010
Good post. And i am glad you asked “Do you hate DRM or love Terry Pratchett?”, using “… or …” instead of “either … or”. Otherwise I would have been forced to answer no ^^.
So, yes, I hate DRM and love Terry Pratchett (I don’t have a full library of him though ^^).