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Old 02-24-2009, 01:17 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by spec2 View Post
Yes, but I think Pogue's point was if the Kindle is abandoned then sooner or later you are either going to want to replace it, either by necessity or desire. Your backed up Kindle books won't do you much good in the new non-Kindle reader. If you wanted to read those books again you'd have to rebuy them or break the DRM.
If that was his point, then he didn't make the point very well. He makes it sound as if the second Amazon goes poof .... your library goes poof as well. And, that is simply not true.

Add that to the fact that a lot of your Kindle library could be non-DRM'd books from .... oh, say here, for example .... and his point (if that is his point) becomes even more obscure.

And, as a point of fact .... if my books are backed up (as they are), and Amazon goes belly up, no one is going to be there to enforce Amazon's DRM, are they?? So, who exactly is going to give a crap if I break the DRM on my Kindle books?? Amazon??
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