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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Those who buy a Kindle are buying their books from Amazon. No exceptions.
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Let me join the horde of exceptions.
I bought a kindle for reading project gutenberg files. I pick up free books occasionally from Amazon if they're linked here (and then remove any DRM). A couple of free books from authors web pages that I've converted from HTML. And PDFs of old books from Google books or the Internet archive. There's more free stuff than I can ever read, without having to pay Amazon a penny.
I don't have a wireless router, and there seem to be no public access wifi spots within miles of here, so getting books from Amazon isn't quite as frictionless as Amazon intended. I've never been able to connect to any wifi network so all files have to be loaded via the USB port, and I can't register my Kindle. I had to jailbreak it and put in a fake registration just to get collections working!
(And while I was at it, I loaded Duokan on the reader, so I can read Epubs.)