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Outside the US?
I am living and cruising on a yacht and at the same time a book-oholic. So an eReader would be an ideal device for me. Would give me access to new books from remote areas and also stop me from filling up all and any available space on the boat with books.
After much research I have sort of settled on the Sony PRS600 reader - think it looks to be real nice. Living outside the US, I have requested one of the online services (ishopinusa.com), that provide a possibility to purchase from US only sites and have them ship it to me.
So far so good. But after placing this purchasing request, I stumbled upon the information, that you can only buy from the Sony eBook store, if you are in the US (funny how that kind of thing always shows up immediately after it was needed).
So what are my options now? Should I cancel my purchase, because the only place I can get a reasonable selection of books for the Sony reader is the the Sony eBook store. Or are there other possibilities from where I can buy. Going to Gutenberg and searching for any kind of best selling author returns no results - so I tend to believe that the free options out there are not for my use. So I need to be able to buy books and that means with some kind of DRM protection (we are now quickly entering the realm of complete ignorance of my part)
Should I drop the Sony and go for another brand?
Any and all advice gratefully received
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