I think the article is basically complaining about nothing. He admits he knew he was getting locked in with the Kindle. I can't see that he's lost anything with regard to what he got it for in the first place. What he's griping about is nothing much to do with reading books; it's about gadget addiction. If he's that keen on the new gadget he can be happily locked in with B&N for new books and can strip DRM and change format on any books he wants to transfer from the Kindle. But the Kindle is still capable of doing the job for which he bought it. Keeping one set of books on one device and another set on the other is hardly less convenient than having bookshelves of dt books in different rooms of one's house.
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