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That automagical download and convenience you're talking about is one of the things you pay that 30% for. It's your call whether you want to go through that channel or not - no one's forcing you.

I've had pretty good success picking them up in digital formats - not sure if you prefer the paperback version, but if you're okay reading it on a screen you can get all of them digital.

Maybe I'm an outlier here - but I actually prefer physical photos. It's too easy for someone to just spray digital photos everywhere - when they're physical, you have constraints that mean I'm seeing the photos you decided were worthy of being printed.

Apparently my market is supposed to shrink - but I know among friends as well, a printed photo still carries a lot more weight than a digital one ever will.

I live in a city in Canada that has a bit of a lacklustre tech scene. Unfortunately, I bought a condo 2 years ago.

Because of the size of the down payment I made (small), and the condo market right now (not awesome), I can't sell without taking a loss until probably about 2014. I also probably can't rent without taking a loss.

I'd like to move - but at the moment, short of foreclosure, there's no way to get this condo off my hands so that I'm free to move again without taking a significant-enough (~$15k) hit to make it cost prohibitive.

Are there more opportunities in other cities? Definitely. But because of my current living situation, I'm not flexible enough to take advantage of them.

Just because you don't like the way someone does business doesn't mean you have any right to steal from them.

I actually waited in line at a bank for about 15 minutes once, and when I got to the teller the manager said "hey - want a coffee?", and handed me a Tim's card (reloadable gift cards for Tim Hortons). I had no idea what the value was - but it turned out to be $2 (just enough to buy any size of coffee at Tim Hortons).

Having it be $2 was a lot more useful than having it be for a large coffee - I don't drink coffee, and I ended up using the $2 to subsidize a bagel.

Are you building a business, or a hobby?

So, wait - does getting married suddenly make you 'old'? =P

According to your description I count as young, and not being able to remember things bothers me a lot sometimes. I remember back before cell phones were commonplace, I could remember 3-4 phone numbers in my head (home, girlfriend, parents, local pizza places) - but now that I've become so reliant on my smartphone, I can only ever seem to remember my own number (and, I'll admit - the pizza place).

Does it bother me? Yeah. I talk to relatives (especially of the grand- variety) who are all "I can still remember every phone number I've ever had", and I get a little bit jealous. I help myself get over it by rationalizing that I have access to a lot more information a lot easier, now - so I don't need to remember as much of it.

Having a good memory is definitely a powerful thing - especially when you want to make a good second impression. So far though, 'take copious notes' has basically solved the "I wish my memory was better" problem.

Right - but pretty colors and interfaces go a long way towards someone saying "you know what? I will read the about page" vs. "woah, this is gross - they expect people to use this?".

For $15, you probably won't get the most absolutely-custom-tailor-made experience - but you might at least get something that convinces visitors to take a closer look.

Maybe I'm an outlier, but I actually really enjoy cleaning up huge legacy codebases. Maybe there's also someone out there who likes building internal apps for performance reviews.

I do - but having my email embedded into a part of the file that I'm not going to see while I'm regularly using the file isn't a problem. I'm not distributing, and I don't mind that the file's identified to me. Having my email on every single page of the ebook I'm reading is a waste of space that only serves to frustrate me - why is my email there? How does having my email there improve the reading experience? It doesn't.

It might not be as intrusive as annoying DRM, but it still makes reading my ebooks frustrating.

This actually pisses me off, a lot. I don't put my ebooks up on torrenting sites or distribute them - but seeing my own email address show up on every page of my ebook means that I'm not going to buy from you again, ever.