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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
I realize everyone draws their own line at what's too intrusive or not, but after buying books where they have all your info at the same stores that make the ereader, and borrowing from libraries, I just don't see what registering an ereader can provide to those that do tracking that your purchases haven't already given them, making it so dangerous to do. If you didn't do any purchasing online, I'd say that's fine to draw your line there.
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It's not complicated: There's a tradeoff between privacy and convenience, and different people make different choices about how much privacy they are willing to part with for how much convenience. To me, it's not that registering an ereader is a much worse loss of privacy than buying books online, it's that the advantages of registering an ereader aren't strong enough for me to be worth any loss of privacy. When buying books, the advantages are a lot bigger, so I give up some privacy in those situations.
It's a pragmatic choice, not an all or nothing situation.
(I briefly thought JSWolf understood this earlier in this thread.)