[hch568]

This is the reason why I choose not to buy kindle or nook and DRMed book. If I pay for the books, I love to have them in my house and enjoy reading them in my private library.

Buying from Amazon (through kindle) and B&N (through Nook) feels like after paying a hefty sum for the books, you are not allow to take the books home, and they are locked in the retailer's locked box. And you need a key to unlock the book-box to read them!!! In addition to that, they can clear the box whenever they have excuses for doing it.

Yeah! You can backup the books in your hard-drive, but it is not easy for non-techie. If you loaded them to your device and use 3g or wifi to connect to the store, it will be gone if they have reason to rob your book from your device. It is just like buying the book and give the key of your home to the retailer, so they can get into your house and take the book without giving you any notice.

And security issue is a common excuses for the net-companies. They shouldn't keep your credit card in their server/system, so others can get into their system to stole your credit card info (it happened so many times that I never trust the security measure of net-companies, no matter what they swears). I always use the net-company that did not keep my credit card info in their system, and would use the credit card that would call me/email me/send message to my phone of my transactions. And I rather key in (or type in a non-sequential fashion and then copy-and-paste for security reason) my credit card when I shop online.