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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If you're giving up your Amazon account because they took away D&T, then you are being a hypocrite keeping your Kindle. That has to be mangled and then sent to be recycled.
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Nope, because I bought and own that Kindle, I can use it the same today as I did when I bought it. Not so for the Kindle books I bought, they were bought with the understanding that I could download them and store them offline securely in a way I choose, i.e. on my hard drive or external hard drive. Amazon have now changed that ability, not me, severely restricting the way I use content I bought. Imagine if I lived somewhere I could not get reliable internet but once a month I would go somewhere that I could, I would be able to buy books download them to my pc in order to have access to them without the need for internet, well Amazon have stopped me from doing that. So I absolutely do not feel hypocritical using my Kindle, it's a good e-reader, the route Amazon decided to take, not so good.
To be honest it seems frankly a bit ridiculous to suggest you shouldn't use a product you already own just because you disagree with a decision a company made
after you bought it, now would I buy another Kindle, no because Amazon have now made that decision I think is ethically questionable.
If others decide that they have no issue with what Amazon decided to do I don't mind, but I didn't agree with it so have withdrawn my future support of them
