I have written about 100 book reviews, and regularly receive books from publishing houses for review. But once I personally bought a couple of books from Amazon, and wrote reviews of these for a magazine. They wanted to have pictures of the covers to accompany the reviews, and as I didn't have electronic versions I gave the books to be scanned. The books came back with the covers taken off (cut away with a knife). Apparently the magazine had just changed the typesetting firm, and someone there didn't manage to scan the books as they were, and instead cut the covers off.

I have been thinking about getting a Mac mini or an iMac for home media, but so far I'm a bit hesitant. What about digital tv? In Finland we seem to have some trouble in getting digi-tv to work reliably. Having a media center for music, dvds, photos, digicam videos etc. would make sense, but integrating tv to the whole seems problematic.