Somewhere in between early college and late college, my media purchasing habits changed. I went from needing a physical copy of everything, to preferring a digital copy or a free copy I could return once I was finished with it. Maybe this could be because I was sick of moving all that junk every time I moved during college (every year), or maybe it was because I got older and was more realistic about whether I was really going to watch that movie or read that book again. I’ve been …

It’s no secret I like the idea of e-books and I like libraries. I’d like to see them come together, and it probably isn’t as far off as one might think. California has already considered making all their public school textbooks digital, so after public education, libraries seem the next logical step.
Recently I read about a new type of encryption scheme using cloud computing to allow data to expire. Since I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about e-books lately, and one of the most annoying things about e-books is …