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Originally Posted by JSWolf
So why get pissed? It's very easy to get KF8 instead of KFX. Also, why are you blaming us for not removing the DRM of eBooks our relatives are reading? You seem to have a chip on your shoulder that you should get rid of.
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1. It is not.
2. Trying to get a book out of a retailer thats still unterstandable in form, or "fit for archival" maybe should be the default?
3. Allowing Amazon to gage what percentage of their customers actually care about owning a product VS having viewing rights attached to their accounts has problematic implications down the road - the argument from "why dont you jump through all the hoops to get a better product" to "why do you buy from Amazon at all in this case" is what you'd call a "slippery slope" - also, with MathML mounting up to be the first relevant feature only to be supported by .kfx - what do you think does the future of format development look like? Should people that dont want to suffer under all this bullshit, never be able to enjoy any future format developments? kf8 being the absolute best we can hope for, just accepting, that there has to be a better format that only ever Amazon is allowed to produce?
4. The entire process is harder than "kfx eBook delivery", only possible because of channels entirely controlled by Amazon, and only possible if you you either were a very early adopter (legacy Kindle eReaders), or if you are willing to stay on the same old Kindle 4 PC version for eternity, or until Amazon flips a switch. This is not "a normal feature" - so why you as mobileread participiant are still recommending that people suffer through it, instead of mounting a vocal stance against Amazon here, is beyond me. Because its easier?
The "chip on my shoulder" are the excusatory tendencies, that dont want to confront the aspects we lost in the eBook ecosystem, two years ago, potentially for good.
It really is enough to make me write those animated lines, that and yolo/ignore/"thanks for your effort" is all that the "eBook community" was able to produce so far.
I have no implied "hidden motives", I'm really miffed about - that most of what this community or Wikipedia, or the consumer blogs are propagating, is basically Amazons marketing message regarding the format from two years ago.
By addressing this, I'm hoping, that at least some of you wont let processes like this one happen in the future, without some public fuzz against them. Thats my motive. I think you have asked for it.
