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Originally Posted by pilotbob
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Originally Posted by Djehuty
Unfortunately, according to an Amazon customer service agent, I'd need to maintain a US credit card with a US billing address in order to buy Kindle books.
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We already know that is NOT true. Believe it or not there are still people in this world that don't use or have a credit card. Can't you buy Amazon gift cards at the store with cash? |
Might I ask how you know this is not true? Are there Kindle owners on this forum who live in Canada, and have no trouble buying new books without a US credit card and all the rest of that rigmarole?
As for gift cards, they're only available at certain stores in the US, according to Amazon. So it's really the same problem, however I approach it: Amazon does not want me to buy Kindle books after I move to Canada, and I'd have to find a way to sneak around their restrictions in order to do so.
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Originally Posted by slayda
The Hanlin V3 family ( aka BeBook, EZ Reader, Ibook) has, IMHO, the best HW and the firmware is interchangable throughout that family & also there is the open sourc firmware for it called OpenInkPot which is, IMO, outstanding making this combination (i.e. Hanlin V3 family plus OpenInkPot firmware) the best choice. Fortunately OpenInkPot supports many popular formats. Unfortunately OpenInkPot does not support any DRM. For me this is OK since I only have books without DRM.
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If the reader is top-notch with the firmware that does not allow DRM, does that mean it's not so good with the default DRM-enabled firmware? I ask because I've read a number of accounts of Hanlin readers freezing, rebooting, and so forth.