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Old 07-20-2010, 06:43 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by HappyMartin View Post
all I can say is enjoy your trip to the bookstore or the wait for delivery from your online purchase. I will enjoy my reading while you are doing all of that running about.
All I can say is enjoy that padded jail cell.

I've never bought an ebook from Amazon, and neither have you. The next time you're lightening your pocketbook in Amazon's direction, remember that Amazon doesn't sell ebooks, it LICENSES them (http://www.llrx.com/feature/ebooks.htm). You don't OWN an Amazon ebook, you're merely paying for permission to read it (permission which Amazon can, and has, revoked without warning).

I OWN some 30-50,000 ebooks. I can copy them to my heart's content, give them away to all my friends, read them on every device I own now or in the future, and convert them into whatever format is most convenient for me. I don't need Amazon's permission, and, since they're already loaded into my reader, I don't need to download anything. But then I've always found Dickens to be a much better read than anything Dan Brown ever cranked out.

And since Amazon ebooks are locked up in Amazon's proprietary format, you're stuck buying Kindles until the Lord returns.

--Nathanael
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