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Originally Posted by 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.
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It is easy to save a book to my computer. I go to my Amazon Kindle account and choose download to computer as opposed to download to my Kindle. It takes no time what so ever. As long as I don't turn on whispernet, there is no way for Amazon to remove the books a second time. I imagine that the Nook allows you to do something similar.
Additionally, there are plenty of places outside of Amazon or B&N for you to buy books to put on the e-reader which would keep the books out of the "lock box"
Amazon pulled one book from peoples Kindles. They screwed up, they said they screwed up, they returned the book to people or gave them to money to buy another book, this after refunding everyone when they initially pulled the book. The only other times that I have heard of Amazon blocking access to accounts is when they figured out that people did not live in the US but had registered a US address in order to buy books (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, really folks) or when a Kindle has been reported stolen.