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Old 05-08-2008, 06:16 PM   #1
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YAKR (Yet another Kindle review)
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Old 05-08-2008, 06:47 PM   #2
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Nice review except for the wrong bits about being "locked" into Amazon....
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seems late in the game to be reviewing the Kindle, the people have spoken
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Old 05-08-2008, 09:44 PM   #4
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Nice review except for the wrong bits about being "locked" into Amazon....
Yes, and I commented on his blog about it.
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Nice review except for the wrong bits about being "locked" into Amazon....
Without doing any DRM removal and/or format shifting, you are locked in if you want best sellers (for example). The same as you are locked into Sony if you have a 505.
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Without doing any DRM removal and/or format shifting, you are locked in if you want best sellers (for example). The same as you are locked into Sony if you have a 505.
I don't read a lot of bestsellers. I've downloaded a ton of content from Fictionwise and Feedbooks (and several of the other free sites, but I really like being able to download directly into the Kindle from Feedbooks).

I'd consider being "locked in" if the Kindle would only read Amazon DRM books.

I'd also grant, though, that there are techies and then there are techies, and the Kindle is really designed for readers who are only techies in that they are willing to read off of an electronic device. I'd guess well over half the people who have Kindles have never gotten a book from another source (just based on some of the forum contents on Amazon). I'm not sure what percentage even know you can download from elsewhere.
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Rick follows up his Kindle review with a story about the attention the device is getting during his travels in Europe.

http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/356044.aspx

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