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Originally Posted by detacht69
Not trying to argue with you, just sharing my thoughts but... I don't hate amazon and don't really know what anyone COULD hate about them. I'm not sure of the ebooks I have, but I doubt they're DRM protected.. I personally wouldn't collect "books" or any other type of media I couldn't share. and yes.. the Sony is sooo much sleeker looking but the functionality of the Kindle FAR outweighs the 505 and 700 combined...
The "steps back" you mentioned being the lack of expandable memory, rubber grip, and removable battery, correct? Me personally, I could probably overlook these traits. My theory is they removed these characteristics to decrease its thickness by half.
I DO want a reader but if what you're saying is true perhaps I should hold off until the next generation of readers. Or at the least wait till this is released and see the reviews
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Don't ask me .... Wolfie is the one who hates Amazon. He thinks Amazon is "evil" ... no, I don't know why, but then much of what he says in incomprehensible to me.
If you purchase any books from either the Sony store or from Amazon, they WILL be DRM protected. There is no getting away from that.
There are ways to break the DRM ... but you should be aware, with either format, what you get in their stores is DRM. You can get unprotected books elsewhere, but not in the Sony or Kindle stores themselves.
I'm sure that's why they removed those things ... to make it thinner. But, I don't find that an improvement. I don't purchase an ebook reader to sit and admire it. I buy it to read books on it. And, for me, being able to carry 1,000s of books on it is a BIG plus.
But, if you are really planning to share the books you buy ... get something other than a Sony or a Kindle. I love sharing my books ... but that's why I purchased three Kindles, so I could loan them out to friends. Neither the Sony nor the Kindle is going to make it screamingly easy for you to share books between your reader and someone else's computer ... that is, not if they are books from each company's store.
I don't think I would necessarily wait, however. We don't know how long it will take the publishing industry to realize that DRM only hurts the consumers, not the pirates. It's taken the music industry one really loooong time to get that straight, so the current state of affairs in ebooks could go on for a long time yet.