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Originally Posted by mickeyfinn
so Kindle (Amazon) makes it difficult and limits access to the number of free ebooks Kindle owners can read, correct?
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No, not particularly. They just kind of don't encourage you to use formats other than their own or buy from other stores which use a copy-restriction scheme they don't want to shell out to license.
You're perfectly free to download all the public domain books you want over at Project Gutenberg, or buy all the MultiFormat books over at Fictionwise, or get the entirety of Baen's Webscription catalogue, or indulge yourself with erotica from Ellora Cave's Jasmine Jade website, which are all DRM-free and available in Mobi.
You can even buy out all of Carina Press which only carries ePub, but DRM-free ePub that you can freely convert to the Mobi format.
It's just that if you want to read books on your Kindle that originally came in copy-restricted formats which aren't Amazon's own, you have to jump through hoops.
Mind you, there's no excuse for why Amazon doesn't support the older form of Mobi-DRM on the Kindle, since they bought and own the Mobipocket format outright. So they are deliberately limiting people there, especially since a lot of people bought a lot of old-style Mobi-DRM books back when it was the dominant format.
Other than that, I'd say they were more lazy and cheap in not wanting to pay for developer support/DRM-licenses for the Kindle, rather than deliberately restrictive.
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Originally Posted by mickeyfinn
which wi-fi ereader gives access to the most free ebooks?
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I'd say probably the Nook Color. It supports both the B&N and ADE flavours of ePub/PDF DRM out of the box, and if you root it, you can install the Kindle for Android and eReader for Android apps, giving you access to both those DRM formats. And then you can also read non-DRM books on it, too.
But it's not e-ink, if that matters.