Thanks for the kind welcomes and suggestions
Having read more and more of the messages on the forum, I can see how tiresomely familiar my questions will be.
One thing I find very confusing: some people on these boards seem to give the impression that Amazon's geographical restrictions are something quite easy to get round. This I don't understand, because even though I have (and constantly use) a VPN which makes me appear to be in the USA, surely it would also be necessary to have a USA billing address on one's credit card to successfully order ebooks there?
Tenacious Badger wrote:
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since you're used to stripping your ebooks, amazon has a wide range of ebooks even for readers who are from outside the US. it's the one i've bought most my books from.
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I wouldn't say I'm "used to it" (only learnt of its existence yesterday
) but it worked OK for a pdf and an epub. But that's DRM, right, which is different from georestriction? As I was saying in the above paragraph, I don't quite see
how I can get stuff from Amazon at all, as it just recognizes my account as from China. Should I just change the shipping address to something else (no point changing the billing address as the card wouldn't work then)? Is that reasonable/possible/ethical/insert adjective?