I'm going to start with the eyeroll.
Ok, with that out of the way
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Originally Posted by stonetools
Hoo boy, the OP has set the cat among the pigeons here.
On this forum, DRM is intrinsically evil. 99 percent of the folks here believe that and preach that and if you dispute it, expect to be called an industry shill, a tool of the publishing industry, a moron, etc.
If you are an average user with the Kindle, I would suggest that you not worry about DRM. Buy good ebooks, enjoy reading them on your device, and live a nice life.
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Boy howdy! In direct contradiction to this, several people have already noted that it's not 'evil', but that the way it works is not ideal.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
You have been told above that you can't lend ebooks. That is false. Amazon has recently allowed limited lending privileges for many titles. Several websites and Facebook pages have sprung up enabling the anonymous lending of thousands of titles. Those websites may not exist for long but even without them, you can lend some ebooks.
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Ok, one retailer allows this (so does B&N, so two). If the publisher allows it (many don't), if you're on the same device (I'm not), for 14 days (I dunno about you, but not long enough for me to read a 1,000 page book), one time (so I can lend it to my brother, but not my dad). This is not lending. It's "Lending".
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Originally Posted by stonetools
You have been told that you can't share your ebook with dear old dad. Well, wrong again. Your Kindle Licensing Agreement allows you to share your library among 5 machines. Simply set up your account on dad's machine, and you're good to go. You may have to move your bondage literature collection to the Archives to avoid shocking dad  , but hey..
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If I want to open up my account to purchases from the individuals I add to my account. If they have a Kindle. If that's where I purchased the book.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
You have been told that you can't take your Kindle books with you if you move to a new dedicated ereader. Two simple solutions here:
1.Don't buy a dedicated ereader that can't read your Kindle books. Your choices here are broad. You can buy a general purpose tablet (eg. Ipad), a PSP (eg Ipod touch), or a smartphone (eg Blackberry)You then install the Kindle Reading app, and you're all set.
2. Just continue reading your Kindle books on your old device (which presumably didn't vanish in a puff of smoke when you decided to move to a new device. If it did so vanish, used Kindles are pretty cheap these days on CL or Ebay.
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What happens when the whole reader dies, and they're no longer selling Kindles? Oh, right, I lose everything.
3. Remove the DRM.
What's with all the "
you've been told" scary language, like anti-DRM people are lying? Just because we don't agree with you doesn't mean we're evil. I'm a consumer, I want to protect my purchases. I don't understand what's so wrong about that?