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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I do still use my Kindle. I still like it. But yes, if Amazon continues with the only-our-content-and nothing-else policy, I might not buy any more Kindles in the future. Which is a pity, because hardware-wise Kindles are very nice.
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I think ‘only-our-content-and-nothing-else’ is an unfair characterization of what Amazon has done with the Kindle. It is more like ‘our content first’. After all, for 99% of Kindle owners, that is all they will ever read on a Kindle.
Amazon supports side loading, in fact supports it for their own content, also maintains send-to-kindle service, and (thanks to calibre and its plugins), even some of the more advanced reading features are available for side-loaded content as well, that would not ordinarily be. They even keep the stupid Your Clippings file around, presumably lest the .01% of users who use it for something complain should they ever take it away. The iOS and Android apps will open .mobi or .pdf files from cloud or local storage (okay, on iOS via send-to-kindle service). There hasn’t been any regression in this functionality over the years, and many features that have benefitted both Amazon and 3rd party content.
And should we give up hope that someone will figure out how to get a Kindle to add Series behavior to side-loaded content?