Remember earlier this year when Amazon recalled copies of “1984″ and “Animal Farm” from people’s Kindle readers without warning them first?
Yes, it was inconvenient and an annoyance to everyone who had purchased the novels. But for Justin Gawronski it was much more that that. Gawronski was reading both books on the Kindle and using it to make notes on the book for a homework assignment.
When the recall occurred, Gawronski’s notes were thrown into chaos.
“I was between a quarter and halfway through [the book],” said Gawronski. “I had a good amount of notes.” Though the notes survived, they pointed only to strings of characters, where the novel’s text had gone missing.
Gawronski sued Amazon and won a settlement of $150,000, who says he will donate the money to charity after paying his legal bills.
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