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Old 01-09-2017, 03:12 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy View Post

Not in the least. Why should it? I tend to buy where things are cheapest and easiest. If worse comes to worse, I will just keep one of my older kindles registered. Or should I say I would if I actually cared about formats. Unless it is a special book, I tend to only read it once anyway.
I figure my attitude is the same as most people that own kindles.

Note: you are really preaching to the choir here. The only thing most people will care about is can I read the book I just bought.
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy View Post

Seriously, on shopping and in most of life, always do what you think is best for you.
Just don't get cranky when 90% of the people do something different.
So it won't affect you; good for you and I'm not being snarky. But it will affect some, those who don't have a Kindle or only have newer ones. Why dismiss their concerns as being cranky?

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I used to buy from both Kobo and Amazon but I've decided to stop buying ebooks from Amazon as of now. I figure I may as well get used to it, unless friends of Alf can work their magic.

The test of willpower will come if there's a new title I want that Kobo don't have. Will I be strong enough to just read something else?
Yes to both of these points. If there's a book I want to read right away and it's much cheaper at Amazon or they're the only purveyor, it won't kill me to read on an app. But otherwise? I'm certainly not going to spend good money on an ancient device just so Amazon can get more of my custom.

The bottom line, though, is that I don't really care. Amazon's about to make it sufficiently harder for me to read Kindle books than is worth the effort. So it goes. It's neither a right nor a necessity and I'll get along.

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