Man I love the discussions on these boards! I've read them forever always keeping my opinion close to my chest, it feels so good to get it off my chest! Please forgive if I'm a little overzealous. :-)
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The thing is, people get burned by DRM now and again. Usually it is in situation when they lose access to their material much sooner that they think is fair or reasonable.
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Humm, I hadn't heard of that before, perhaps my opinion on the issue is skewed because I've never had a bad experience with DRM...Could you give me an instance where people have been burned by DRM?
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Mind you, Amazon has total control over your device. The ultimately total control. They can install anything they want. They can have a look at any file. If they wanted they could find out how often you read, or even where you read a book (it is possible to track your position using cellular network).
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...woah...maybe the key is to wrap the kindle in aluminum foil? Or your head? (j/k) Realistically, what do they gain from that information that harms you, even if they do decide to look at it? They know what books to suggest to me based on what I've already purchased? Fine by me, I don't feel like browsing through 90,000 of them all the time, and it's a friendly suggestion, not an order. As far as them being able to read my files, I've got nothing to hide! Even if the all knowing "they" could access a document that I created and put onto my kindle, for the same reason that I keep my car keys seperate from my house keys (i'm always losing my car keys!) it's not going to be the only copy, or my plot for world domination. (I keep that on my iphone.) If they want to read the honor harrington series, they can feel free. And they CAN install anything that they want onto my kindle. They're going to install what...updates? more features in the "experimental" category? Disable me from using the kindle (cough cough cash cow cough) that I purhchased from their store so I cannot purhcase their ebooks? What kind of sense does that make from a business standpoint?
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You leave your Kindle unattended and a coworker makes a great practical joke of purchasing a few dozens of books in your name. Or somebody just browses and casually plays with your kindle without realizing that they are spending your money and actually buying books. Or a cat steps on your "buy now" button.
Yet another random thought. What happens when your kindle gets stolen?
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Someone else already pointed out the very realistic steps you'd take with amazon and the kindle if any of these things actually happened, but the same thing could happen if you have your wallet and credit cards stolen. Is that an argument against wallets or credit cards? i guess yes, but is it a convincing one?
My kindle is on the way and I think we're going to be very happy together. I'm going to keep my PRS 505 in my desk in case of emergency, or in case I want to read one of the books I had on my 505, but not bad enough to re-purchase it on amazon. If I decide to sell it, the funds will go to replace my library through amazon. Simple as that.
IMHO it's coming down to; some people prefer the convenience of having a tailor made library at your fingertips all the time, and are willing to sacrafice a little freedom in where they read the files, and a little cash if they occasionally have to re-purchase a book and some people would rather work a little bit harder to get the same content onto their reader of choice sans DRM. On the 500/505 when I wanted to get a book that wasn't available from the connect store, I'd do a little more work, I'd find it elsewhere (certainly not the darknet) convert it to a nice format, and transfer it in. I still have the ability to do that, I just hope I don't have to waste as much time doing it and can waste more time reading. :-) I recognize that I'm paying for the privilege.