Roger Moore was my favourite also with Connery close behind. But then I was a big Saint fan too.
James Bond Books Will Be Edited
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Most Public libraries don't have copies of controversial books anymore, and many of those books are out of print. Try to find anything written by Henry Miller in a Toronto Public Library. The only place to find them is at second hand book stores, and many of those were put out of business by COVID-19 restrictions.
Other than in specialty stores, it's difficult to find printed periodicals for titles less popular that what's carried in a Shopper's Drug Mart, and they're all really expensive, with the lower print runs these days. I think the price of a National Enquirer by the cash registers at a grocery store was around $7.00.
When literature only exists in a digital form, it's very easy to alter or excise the ones that don't suit the agenda of the copyright holders, and without printed copies of the originals circulating, no one, a few generations from now, will know the difference. I'm not one of the people who sees that as progress.
Some places have banned them, mostly thanks to Conservatives, despite the recent backlash towards JK Rowling from many in the LGBTQ community.
When literature exists in digital form it exists forever and it is accessible, legally or otherwise, to everyone.
You’d be surprised what you can get on EBay, lots of people selling out of print hard to get books, magazines, dvds etc.
abebooks(dot)com is a better option than eBay for books and magazines.
I suspect that one's favorite James Bond tracks with one age. The best one is the one you grew up with. Much like if you were under 7 when the Ewok movie came out you loved them because they remind you of teddy bears and if you were older you thought they were stupid for the same reason. Exceptions, rules, proving.
I always preferred Moore, he was James Bond, but that Craig fellow really fits the bill. I don't mean the movies, they are all pretty much the same to me, but when I imagine James Bond, that is where I go.
Well until they replace him with a black welsh disabled lesbian trade unionist.
I had no idea!
I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised, given that folks don't read any more. That includes me with social media and the Net, I guess. It used to be that anyone with a college education would automatically read the best sellers' list for coffee table conversation. But the best seller's list and coffee table conversation are pretty much dead themselves.
Thanks for telling me.
This is naive.
There is a lot of Windows software which only works with Windows XP and earlier Microsoft operating systems. New laptops do not have motherboards that are compatible with WinXP, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to find the older ones; most are in landfills by now.
What prevents computer manufacturers from making new models which won't execute the applications currently used to read digital text? Nothing at all; that sort of 'progress' happens all the time. I don't think people can buy a Windows Office Suite on CD anymore, they only sell digital downloads, with monthly or annual licensing fees. Every time Microsoft releases a new version of their software, that add some new features, and remove some others. Older software and operating systems were designed to obey the user's commands; newer ones tend to do most of the work and offering 'helpful suggestions', and the user is reduced to choosing from the options offered, rather than making their own decisions. This stifles creativity and original thought.
When more advanced text reading apps are created, many currently available titles won't be made available, and many others, like the Roald Dahl and James Bond books, will have been altered. Try comparing the text of The Holy Bible in any online version to a printed copy more than 50 years old - the two will be substantially different.
Every day, we see activists on both the politically Left and Right trying to restrict everyone from having access to intellectual property which conflicts with their view of how things should be. It's not a stretch of the imagination for Governments to prevent citizens from reading or writing anything critical of their policies; that's already the norm in places like China, Russia and North Korea.
Not sure I agree. I'm not so old that Moore was still in the role when I was of age to see them.
Seems weird to be decrying a thing that the studio has made no mention of doing. Seems like you're just trying to create a controversy where none exists.
But in the digital age, that doesn't matter. It's relatively trivial for anyone with a modicum of tech literacy to download a Windows XP image and run it in a virtual machine, and you can find the media online for everything back to MS-DOS.
A book is essentiall text, just like what I am typing here, and all computers can open .txt text files.
Now reading a giant text file is not a great experience so maybe you want a more convient format like epub or PDF which require software but digital formats are well known and there are many software old and new that can read them.
Someone above me mentioned virtual machines, that is what I use to run old Windows XP and 7 software on my modern windows 10 computer. Current computer hardware is so powerful that you can partition off a small amounts of the hardware to run multiple instances of almost any operating system. I am writing this post inside a windows 10 virtual machine. If I need to run my older version of photoshop that does not require month subscription then I spin up my old windows 7 virtual machine. I have some super old software for technical work that only runs on XP, so if I need to run that software than I spin up my old windows xp virtual machine.
Technically savvy people can do those sorts of things. A majority of the population think their cellphone is a computer.
I also use a lot of older apps, many of them with serial cracks. Windows updates search for some of them, and disables them. I know this because with Windows XP, the update .log file can be opened with notepad, and most of the text is in plain English. It appeared to me that certain companies pay a fee to Microsoft to search for an disable unregistered software during the update process.
I have a stockpile of computers with XP operating system, (five laptops and two towers), and only one of the tower models has ever been connected to the Internet after the XP operating system was installed. As far as I can tell, the disabling of unregistered software began around February, 2014. The XP computers than my geek sets up have Service packs 1, 2 and 3, but no updates after that.
Now reading a giant text file is not a great experience so maybe you want a more convient format like epub or PDF which require software but digital formats are well known and there are many software old and new that can read them.
That's true today, but 20, 50, 100 years from now, who knows? At some point, the average Joe might have to pay a fee to read anything, or may have to make an application to request to read something in particular that would not interest the majority. I don't see life in the future getting better, and I expect that it will be a lot worse.
My #1 is tied with Connery and Craig. Both captured the harnessed violence and occasional cruelty of the character.
Moore was a cartoon. Lazenby mediocre, and Brosnan another cartoon. Dalton was imo a victim of poor scripts and lack of budget. He also could have captured the essence of the character given the chance
‘They’, ‘the woke’. Likely decedents of supporters of the Prohibition and look how that timed out.
Just another case where the right freaks out because a company wants to make more money by broadening their customers base.
