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Originally Posted by pilotbob
It's not bricked at all. Perhaps not being able to buy from Amazon makes it less useful. But there are plenty of other places to get content.
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If you abide by Amazon's restrictions and legal restrictions, there really aren't many options. If you're willing to use certain tools, the options for content from other retailers are plentiful. Otherwise, you can only read DRM-free works and there aren't that many current titles available that way. There are a few gems like Baen's that offer such things, but most of the stuff I read isn't available anywhere legally without DRM.
Now if it had been one of us giving him the advice that his Kindle weren't bricked, that it was still quite useful, I would think nothing of it. It seems a bit disingenuous coming from Amazon since I doubt they would sanction him using the same sort of tools that prompted them to use the DMCA takedown hammer. It's technically true, yes. You can get many DRM-free books and load them on the Kindle. You just can't get much of what's been published in the last 80 or so years. Most people would like to read that stuff, too. As I've often said here, books are not fungible commodities. If books were interchangeable, I'd just have one and read it over and over.