I will look into setting up an Amazon account for her with a gift card, if that's possible. I don't mind her having an Amazon account; I'm just not willing for it to be tied to my finances.
Being able to track her use of it is not enough--if I can't put a spending cap on it, I won't be opening the account. But I see what people mean about the samples & free books; I'd like her to have access to those.
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you're limiting yourself to eReader.com, Fictionwise, Smashwords and Baen for your non-Amazon ebooks
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1) eReader.com sells non-DRM'd ebooks?
2) And Mobileread, feedbooks, gutenberg, and the fanfic ebook archive. And countless small publisher/indie author sites. She's 14, an avid fanfic reader, and not bored with classics. By the time the limitations of "no DRM'd books" begins to actually bother her, she should have enough experience with both ebooks and money to make up her own mind how to deal with them.
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It is trivially easy to remove DRM from all Kindle books except the relatively rare Topaz
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I'm not willing to encourage publishers to use DRM by paying for products infected with it. (I don't buy from Walmart or purchase Nestle products, either. I'm aware that I've got some oddball ideas about consumer ethics; my kid's not required to share them, just put up with them for a few more years.)
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That attitude, given that you've not actually worked with the Kindle long enough to justify it, is rather irritating.
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I'm sorry about that. I'd like her to enjoy her gift, and I'll be sending her over here to get her own mobileread account soon. I was mostly hoping that, by mentioning my (very likely irrational) biases up front, they wouldn't catch people by surprise later in the conversation.
[quoteOtherwise, I would ask - how hurt is grandpa going to be if you return it for a reader more in line with your/her tastes and access requirements?[/quote]
She should try it before letting my reaction make her decision for her. (If it comes down to it, returning it would be tolerable. I just don't want her to miss out on what might be the perfect reader for her, if my preferences weren't in the way.)