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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Wat is wrong with having the option of an integrated walled garden? I can read any non-DRMed book on my Kindle -- no one is forcing you to only read books from the garden.  |
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Originally Posted by rcentros
I still don't get the "walled garden" argument. Kindles can read non-DRM mobi books from anywhere. Nooks can read any non-DRM ePub books from anywhere. Where's the wall? It seems with Kindle or Nook you get more choice. All the non-DRM books for each format, plus the DRM books at Amazon or Barnes & Noble that the other eReaders can't read -- or, at least, they can't read before applying Calibre and Apprentice Alf.
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Wot is wrong? Having to navigate past all the trying-to-sell-books-to-you stuff (which
is most certainly part of the walled garden ecosystem, and
is part of the eReader) to get to what you want to read. I buy an eReader to read,
not to be advertised at.
This is part of what turned me off the Nook ST, when I looked at it before buying my Onyx.
Another problem I have with the whole walled garden ecosystem concept is Amazon's ability to arbitrarily remove eBooks from your reader. You may own the
physical Kindle, but every digital bit that sits on it belongs fully and wholly to Amazon.