[purl4peace]

Regarding Amazon's Police-State mentality associated with the Kindle:

I'm supposed to be receiving a "free" K2 in return for having been a reviewer for ABNA. Now that I've read about what they are doing to lock down their device (and, by extension, their owners) -- I'm very tempted to sell it and stick with my Sony's.

I also have a Cybook and read Harry's post that the next firmware release is due out soon to enable folder support so may have to move that back into my rotation (though I really dislike the fact that the Cybook doesn't display page numbers like the Sony -- just the progress bar).

[edited to add] I just sent a scathing email to Amazon letting them know that I do not intend to purchase a single piece of Kindle content from them. I also let them know that I will not be giving or selling the Kindle I am receiving because I don't want the next owner to buy any Kindle content from Amazon.

I'm surprised they can't be in for some sort of antitrust violation for trying to monopolize content like that. If I bought a CD player from Amazon and Amazon tried to enforce a rule that I could only play CDs that were purchased from Amazon, that would never fly. Of course, I guess there are enough other options out there for eReaders to where there is no 'monopoly' consideration.

I'm still really ticked off... as you can tell. Of course, I'm quite sure Amazon couldn't/won't care less since they have all the other K2 customers hooked like a monkey on crack cocaine!