re: #33 doppelganglander

The notes feature is one of the primary attractions of the Kindle for me. I can’t bear to mark up a book, even a cheap one. This would be a good alternative to mass quantities of Post-It note flags. I wonder if Amazon can recover this poor guy’s notes.

In theory recovering the student’s notes should be possible. Deletion is like losing one’s Rolodex. All the telephones of your friends still exist, but you no longer know how to reach them. Similarly with deletion, the book is still on the computer; it’s just that the book’s entry in the Rolodex has been scrambled.

//At least this is how it would work in the old days. For the same reason, government security agencies are able to find all sorts of goodies on peoples computers — porn, incriminating letters and so forth — because deletion only modifies the “Rolodex”. I would be curious to learn of newer strategies for deleting info on a computer.