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I don't know, to me this is not such a monumental issue. I'm fine with my few purchases from Amazon as most of my e-books are from here and Feedbooks. I do like to download and read the free samples before I buy, and I mainly have the Kindle for the Whispernet service over the Sony PRS-505 which I had previously. The onboard dictionary gives me the freedom to look up definitions in book text which I have discovered is nice! So many of our free books have terminology in them that I was unfamiliar with. Afterall, I wasn't around in the early 1900's and a number of authors are English and use terms "foreign" to me.
If you want to "keep" books and share books with friends, or sell them, then buy paperbooks or hardbacks. I look at Amazon or Sony stores as "rentals", much like Flix or downloaded movies from my satellite TV service. I can always go out and buy DVD's if I want a hard copy to save or pass on.
Last edited by MsAstoria; 03-20-2009 at 11:07 AM.
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