Thread: I've never owned a Kindle. What about you?
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Old 11-05-2013, 05:55 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by TheMatrix View Post
Have never owned a Kindle I guess for the same reason as others that I just don't like being locked into buying books only from one place and in one format. I buy a lot of things from Amazon, but a Kindle is not one of them. I have had a Nook first gen and now use a Kobo Mini.
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Originally Posted by Freeshadow View Post
I wanted a reader. The kindles are IMHO not. They are just portable amazon shops.
Well, really. With all due respect, I have 40-odd books on my PW1 out of which THREE are from Amazon.

I started in 2009 with epub readers and then bought first Kindle in 2011. Nowadays I buy all books watermarked and get 3 formats for price of one. I don't have to strip and convert and I haven't updated Alf's tools since God knows when. I only use Calibre to embed font (if necessary) or tweak this or that. And I enjoy my PW1 for the features it has, don't even mind collections anymore (I used to strongly prefer folders) Amazon bookstore is quite irrelevant for me. What walled garden. I think I was in fact drawn into Kindle world and quite like it.

I think it can be done in both ways - buy Amazon content, strip convert for epub reader without owning a Kindle or buy content somewhere else and only own Kindle reader. Of course the easiest is to own the Kindle and use Kindle store, after all what is REALLY wrong with that?

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