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I have two older Kindles (DX and keyboard) and they are fine for reading. It is hard to properly organize books when you have more than a hundred or so, but I've been able to get around it. Tags or hierarchical directories would solve the problem.

The real gripe I have, and the reason I went over to Kobo, is that Amazon seems to be committed to their proprietary format (MOBI, etc.) Yes, Calibre is one way to solve the problem on an individual basis for those of us who are willing to go through the hassle.

But as a journalist, I see Amazon's attempt to corner the market on books as dangerous for a free society. Books are a different kind of commodity than Hula-Hoops or vacuum cleaners. They represent ideas, points of view, the future. No one company or one government should have exclusive control over them.

So I would like to see Amazon open up to the industry standard of EPUB. Personally, I will do what I can to encourage the use of EPUB and to discourage proprietary formats.

DRM is a big issue too, but that seems to be more the decision of publishers rather than Amazon.