lol, I stepped away from this thread for a day and found so many tin foil hats
I guess to shed a bit more light to my question.
1. I want to go with the kindle mainly because of its popularity, battery life and price.
2. I dont usually pay for anything that can be distributed electronically. (does that mean I only download open source free stuff, or I pirate like hell) Ill leave that up to you.
3. I read those articles where amazon tracks your books to offer other recommendations and other personal usage. I dont feel that I should be a marketing platform for them, even if I did buy there hardware I feel they are entitled to nothing regarding my reading habits or usage.
Point being, I want the kindle hardware but do need anything else from amazon. Though they may offer some great deals and incentives, but I will probably find it else where for a price that would be considerably less expensive (possibly free).
Same point with itunes, I dont need them and nothing they offer me would be an incentive to use them.
So that is why I was wondering if i could take the kindle off the amazon grid. I just dont need them... its either the kindle or the latest sony pocket reader for 150 (but dont really care losing that extra inch in screen space)