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Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors
I'll be honest, I just really don't like their walled garden and I try to vote with my dollar, ya know?
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Obviously that's your decision, and I completely respect it. I would just note, though, that Amazon don't have any more of a walled garden than any other reader does. You basically have two format choices when it comes to ebooks: Amazon and ePub. With the former, Amazon own the DRM mechanism; with the latter, Adobe do. With an ePub reader, when you buy a commercial eBook you're buying it via Adobe's DRM servers, just as you're buying it from Amazon's when you shop in their store. When you say "jump through their hoops", what specifically are you referring to?
The really big thing about the Kindle is the free 3G. Free virtually everywhere in the world. You say that you travel a lot: there's no other device on the market which gives you that.
But it's your choice at the end of the day, needless to say.