[QUOTE=SmokeAndMirrors;1834905]Oh sure, it'll work on anything... as long as it's Kindle. And only Kindle. You can buy it from somewhere else if you want, but it will only work on Kindle.]
No. It will work on any Kindle, on an iPad, on an iPod Touch, on a Windows phone, on any modern Android tablet, on a a rooted nook color, on a Window computer, on a mac, on a linux box, and on a chromebook. There may be others that I don't know about.
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The way it's used - which is slightly more forgiving than its literal meaning, very clearly includes Amazon/Kindle. The fact that you can buy Kindle books from some other places doesn't change that it won't work on anything but Kindle, and that they try to make moving away from Kindle painful and expensive as a deterrent.
If they could, they would make it impossible for you to ever move away from Kindle without losing every book in your collection. They've already done that, for users who aren't savvy enough to know what Calibre and Alf are.
There are plenty of ways to do a walled garden. Some lock everything out; some lock everything in. Some do a mix of the two.
It matters to me. And it matters to a lot of other people. If you don't care, fine. But please don't try to tell me this isn't an issue, or that people who see it as an issue are just making things up. It is very clearly an issue, and has caused problems for plenty of people. It's almost intellectually insulting to claim otherwise.
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The only people who complain about the Kindle being restrictive are non-Kindle owners. I can't recall any MR posts by Kindle owners who feel restricted by the Kindle. These posts are always by people who have other readers yet feel the need to complain about Kindles. If Kindle's "restrictions" were an actual reason for someone not to buy a Kindle, you'd think that there would be more complaints by Kindle owners.
I understand that you have political reasons for not liking the Kindle, and have somehow convinced yourself that buying DRM'd content for your corporate reader is somehow more pure than buying DRM'd content for another corporate reader. This is your prerogative. What is intellectually insulting is repeatedly making demonstrably false statements of fact about the Kindle.