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Originally Posted by cynoclast
If you could point me to an alternate source for amazon's ebooks, I'd very gladly simply buy them there instead.
I'd rather not contribute money to a company that uses such draconian lock-in tactics.
But at the same time I believe in subsidizing the ebook industry because it's starving and I, for one, am sick of moving two bookshelves of books every time I relocate, when all of those books would fit on a card weighing 1.4 grams.
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yes, i completely agree with you...
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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
Still, there is a legitimate reason for wanting to know if there is a way to buy ebooks from Amazon without having to own a Kindle to do it. Despite what some people have said, there are lots of ebooks that only Amazon sells. Even though they are in Mobipocket format, you can't buy them from Books on Board, Fictionwise, or Mobipocket. But if you have a device that will read Mobipocket books, it would be very nice to legitimately pay for them and read them without having to buy a Kindle.
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...and with you.
well, i suppose there is still the option of buying the broken kindle... although it seems rather silly to have to jump through all these hoops just to be able to buy books, doesn't it ?