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Unfortunately, you cannot read library books on your kindle without your PID, which Amazon does not want you to have. All your PID does is authorize your kindle to recieve books purchased at other sites, or checked out from the library. Once you have downloaded the book from a commercial site or the library, you can either use kindlefix to get the book onto your kindle with the DRM intact, or use mobidedrm to remove the DRM.
Another reason people are against DRM is because apparently Amazon has gone out of the ebook business once before. Even those of us perfectly happy with our kindles are concerned. I don't want to have to buy the same books all over again in 5 years. If I were reading books as I bought them, it wouldn't be as much of an issue, but I look at purchasing books as a separate hobby from reading books.
So, I love my kindle, and I hate DRM. I used to feel a little guilty about stripping DRM from books I had purchased. But since Amazon has over reacted, I think back to the old saying "Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered." Amazon became a hog when it targeted Mobileread.
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