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Originally Posted by dkperez
Wow, so Amazon has really locked people into their reading software - I'm talking about NORMAL people, not the folks that hang out in here, use Calibre, are comfortable managing DRM and all that... Of course, I suppose those same normal folks wouldn't realize how limited their reading software is.
Well, I sure hope those prophecies of the death of epub and the ascension of Amazon are wrong.
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How is my reading limited by having a Kindle? I probably have a wider selection of books on Amazon than anywhere else even if I don't use any other software. I buy books to read, I don't care the format and the price makes more of a difference. Amazon and Apple are not "teh evul" as some seem to think.
I think it is pretty funny people always gripe about Amazon or Apple locking people in but the fact is most people who buy those devices fully intend to buy books from Amazon or Apple, pretty much exclussively.
For me, I don't see the big deal about drm, file type and all that jazz. I just buy books on my kindle and don't futz with things. I used to be the type that lamented about such things but found it was pointless for my purposes.