All them great ideas seem taken...

I thought I had thought of something pretty cool when i was contemplating the "plant a tree as a gift" idea - Oh well! That one was taken...

Then on the throne another cunning plan struck me, what about all the paper thats wasted in printing multiple copies of books, considering that we have technology to e-read now...hence came my cunning plan of the IBook, a digital reader which works like a book, with encryption so that books cant be duplicated for free (but basically relying on the goodness of humanity for revenue). I also thought of sending Steve Jobs an email, following which he would hand over control of Apple to me and go to the Himalayas to be one with nature. 

Alas, there are more cunning people than I thought.

Sony and various others have already done this.  A long, long time ago. Google just put half million books on the net for free! These are books published prior to 1929, when IPR wasnt big and you could write letters without having 4 page disclaimers.

I wish i could get the reader in China. There are barely any english paper books available

Lesson for the day for me: Instead of blogging first and doing the research later, i shall attempt to reverse the order.