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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's almost certainly true, as you say, but it's a completely different thing to saying that it's illegal to read non-Kindle books on a Kindle, as the earlier poster claimed.
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Obviously. I don't agree with SoCalReader's wording at all.
SoCalReader of course has a more general point, in general use cases Kindle readers are tied to Amazon's ecosystems, but worded it way too strictly both from a legal and a book-acquisition point of view:
- Breaking Kindle's TOS or even DRM is not necessarily illegal in your location. It is in some locations.
- While most e-book content is DRM protected, and there you are (under TOS) stuck with what Amazon offers, there is non-DRM PDF and .mobi content available that you can read as is on Kindle. Plus some e.g. ePub (and other type of document) content that you can legally convert to PDF or .mobi. Kindle even has an email document to device service.
So it certainly isn't true that "legally, if you purchase a Kindle, you can only read Kindle books on it", but of course as a broader point it is true with Kindle you are mostly (but not entirely by a long shot) tied to its ecosystem unless you break the TOS and perhaps break the law in your locale.