As for KU, I agree that what applies to purchased books doesn't necessarily apply to a subscription model. Some might prefer not to give Amazon any business at all, but I get that deploring Amazon's lockdown of digital files isn't relevant to KU where the books are explicitly only borrowed and must be read on a Kindle platform.
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Originally Posted by rcentros
Yes, it's exactly that book when I want to read when I want to read that exact book. Otherwise I won't bother at all.
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I did acknowledge that in the quoted post you truncated:
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Originally Posted by issybird
Of course if you have to read exactly that book, then you’d go for it. But I suspect that those purchases are rare.
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In part, my point with all this is that we always live with limitations on what we read. I vastly prefer digital books which means that I am almost never willing to read a book in paper. Price is another significant filter; if a book costs more than it's worth to me, that's the end of it. So even if it's exactly the book I want to read and when I want to read it and I can neither afford it nor is it available as an ebook, then I don't. I don't understand "won't bother at all". Does that mean you just won't
read anything at all? Seems unlikely to me, but perhaps it does. In my case, I'd just read something else. There's always something else (many somethings else) to read.
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So for me the corollary is that if you loathe limitations on Kindle books and have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get around them and fully expect it to get harder still, why is that not just one more filter? If enough people acted on that in the aggregate, it might even have a good effect.
Noting that many who've posted in this thread have largely or entirely stopped buying from Amazon for this reason. I suspect that for those who do that sort of thing, one reason to crack methods is because it's fun/challenging. Like a crossword puzzle.