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"Being tied to the Kindle store hasn't limited me at all as I've found everything I wanted at a reasonable price, still have easy access to Feedbooks and the other sources for public domain books, and can use other book stores if need be."
Don't those books that come from other sources have to be converted?
Kindles read Epub's now? RTF? Mobi? FB? not to mention htm, .txt, and others.
"Again, I'm no fan of DRM. I hope it dies soon. But for the time being it doesn't really affect me as I re-read books so seldom and the Kindle app is on so many devices now I can still easily read on different machines."
Not so much a matter of DRM as it is proprietary formats.
I load what I want, when I want, from wherever I want on my Jetbook.
Can you say the same about your Kindle?
Yes, there are ways to work around it, but the device is tied to the store.
The store is only more important than the device when they are tied together.
If you have a device that can go anywhere, load anything "which" store is no longer an issue.
So yes the "Ford" analogy does hold together. Your limited with what you can do, and where you can go. You just prefer not to look at it that way. Which is fine, that is your choice.
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