I Swear I'm Going to Make a New Blog Category

And it's going to be called "E-books still suck." Here, let me share with you the latest joy, which is Jim O'Donnell explaining how Google Play (nee Google Books) helpfully removed 'his' e-books from his mobile device because it detected he was outside some arbitrary national boundary.

No, really, I can't make this stuff up. E-books are so convenient! people cry. We can take lots of them on a trip. Sure thing, folks. Just make sure the actual e-book owner (which is the publisher or the tablet maker or the OS maker or frankly anyone but you) doesn't detect where you are. Because DRM follies.