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Originally Posted by calvin-c

So that's an extra 15 minutes, then there's the extra 20 minutes to strip the DRM & convert them. That's over a half-hour of my time that I wouldn't need to spend if I bought from Amazon. (Assuming I was willing to keep the DRM.)

Not sure if you know this but if you search around there is a plug-in which can be used with Calibre that will automatically do the deDRM work on Mobi books quickly upon import. No muss, no fuss.

One of the things I detest about US (and possibly international) society today is the focus on getting the lowest price, regardless of what you've got to do to get it. I'll sometimes shop at a store that charges slightly more if it provides a significantly better shopping experience than the lowest-priced store.

Hey, Id rather spend more at Target than less at Walmart. I think we all have our limits (when we have enough means).

But that's the point I'd like to make about the Kindle 'fanatics'.

I prefer to stay away from this word as it has no real definition and is really more of a personal definition. I think most of us are fans of our particular readers or cars or computers or whatever or we'd stop using them and move on to something else if possible.

Maybe they're focusing on the shopping experience, which sounds like it's much better at Amazon than at FW. (On re-reading I see that that's not quite right either, but don't know how to say it better. If they ignore 'getting the best deal' from FW then I'm sure the shopping experience is at least as pleasant as at Amazon, but then Amazon has the better prices. So it ends up being a question of how important it is, to you, to get the best possible price.)

I'm sure there are many people who are perfectly happy purchasing content from the Sony store (for those who own Sony Readers) or Barnes & Noble (for those who own nooks) and there is nothing wrong with that (it's their money after all). And of course there are those (like MobileRead members) who are aware of other choices but still have a preferred choice for ebook retailers. To each his or her own.