Comments | paulcarp: How to solve a problem that doesn't exist: Add packaging!

paulcarp

How to solve a problem that doesn't exist: Add packaging!

Apr 27, 2011 16:10

I was an avid music CD buyer, listener, and collector from shortly after they came out until my CD stereo component stopped working. I still listen on the boombox or in the car, but I don't tend to buy them. I don't tend to burn them, preferring liner notes and royalties and those traditional things. Most people jumped to the next wave, say iTunes ( Read more... )

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paulcarp April 27 2011, 23:17:56 UTC

At Norwescon last weekend, I heard someone suggest that e-readers, such as the Kindle, should have a card you can stick to the back identifying the book you're reading. This way, people on the bus, for example, aren't out of your loop. Another person said they already make these kind of inserts. Go paperless, my eye.

My idea is to make a book slip case that looks like an iPad.

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paulcarp April 28 2011, 01:10:38 UTC

The Seven Percent Solution? I've keep meaning to read it. I'll have to download it and print it out.

kehrli April 27 2011, 23:41:56 UTC

More and more CDs are coming in "oh fuck it" packaging now, though, which I like better. They're just like little records.

It makes sense for everybody to move to simple, recyclable cardboard sleeves. After all, if anybody's going to steal the music, they're not going to bother going to the record store for a CD - it's all right online.

paulcarp April 27 2011, 23:58:28 UTC

No kidding. In fact, the only thing that ever made me want to steal music was piracy prevention.

I like getting new music at live shows, but it's been awhile...

kehrli April 28 2011, 06:20:28 UTC

I'm glad that it got better. There was some point in 2004 or 2005 when one of the major record labels was putting some kind of horrible crap on their CDs so that I couldn't even get my laptop to play it, let alone rip to my hard drive.

So I downloaded the album.

quixoticfish April 28 2011, 00:49:05 UTC

I had a cd somewhere that you "helped" me open. I think the plastic was cracked in three places by the time you got it out. I couldn't get it out.

paulcarp April 28 2011, 01:12:12 UTC

Heh heh. I wonder if any of the damage was caused by my frustration.

bookish_girl_ April 28 2011, 02:12:17 UTC

My mom broke four fingers in a pony accident a few years ago. She went to the hospital, got splinted up and prescribed painkillers. Dad helped her out and then went to work the next day without opening her bottle of pain meds. The next day she could not open the bottle and she was in some serious pain.

So she got a hammer and busted the bottle open.

I still have the bottle. It has a perfect oval hole in it.

paulcarp April 28 2011, 05:31:26 UTC

Julie, over my shoulder, cracked up at "she got a hammer..."

jackwilliambell April 28 2011, 06:35:11 UTC

I used to have a t-shirt about hammers and wish very much I could find another one. It had what looked like the Arm and Hammer logo except around it was the motto: Bigger Hammer School of Mechanics - If first you don't succeed, use a bigger hammer.

It has been a motto of mine ever since. Of course the corollary is that you start by using the smallest hammer you think will work.