Hello All
My name is Stephen and I live in Vancouver Canada.
I was just given a Kindle for my birthday and immediately discovered a number of things.
1. I love it - I find the fit, form and finish excellent
2. Being Canadian, I cannot buy anything for it from Amazon. Despite having bought thousands of dollars worth of books over the last few years, I must have a US credit card and address to do business for my Kindle. I'm not going to bitch about International copyright laws, it's just very frustrating. I tried downloading (and paying for) a couple of books from Mobiebook but as I'm sure you experienced folk will have realized - they don't work.
The irony is that I do have a US address in Florida but I cannot get a credit card without a SSN which (as a "furriner")I am not allowed to have.
3. Currently, I have found a number of "ripped" books that I would prefer to buy but since I'm not allowed to, they will have to do until I figure out how to do business with Amazon.
4. Any suggestions as to getting legally purchased but DRMed content onto my Kindle greatly appreciated. I did try Igor's suggestion (and learned far more about Python than I had planned in the process) but my PID (created by kindlepid.py) has a number in it which Igor says is an error.
I am an avid reader but normally read 6-8 books at once and this, combined with my traveling suggests that the Kindle is the way to go (my hand-luggage weight is 90% books).
I hope to learn from you more experienced folks and in time share what I have learned.
TAFN
