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Old 02-24-2012, 09:21 PM   #151
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Does my T1 "care" whether I am reading DRM books or not? I hope not. Except for the Library books which are automated DRM, everything else is stuff I personally own and is DRM-free.
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Old 02-24-2012, 10:19 PM   #152
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DRM status of ebooks you open is one of the things the Kindle logs. DRM removal is also a violation of Amazon's terms of use, even if it is legal in your country, so they would be within their rights to block you if they wanted to. I can't see why they would want to, but it's not beyond the realms of fantasy that a publisher might insist on it one day.
This, and the kerfuffle over Kindle lending in the "Penguin" thread makes me very happy that my ereader is not a Kindle!
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Old 02-24-2012, 10:57 PM   #153
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This, and the kerfuffle over Kindle lending in the "Penguin" thread makes me very happy that my ereader is not a Kindle!
No EPUB public library borrowing is a big disadvantage.

However, being able to push an internet text page I'm reading on my PC, to my eReader, with a single readability.com or klip.me mediated click, is a significant convenience. And that couldn't happen without Amazon's software having a record of just about everything I am reading. Also, I can't expect them to continue to give away near-everywhere-world-wide internet service (on the Kindle 2 and 3) without trade-offs. I consider no-monthly-fee worldwide email, just by itself, to be one of the all-time-best tech bargains, with the US-only Kindle $1.99 a month New York Times Latest News Blog not far behind.

For someone who isn't going to use these rather obscure Kindle features, which is the majority, I would agree with your sentiment.
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Old 02-24-2012, 11:20 PM   #154
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DRM status of ebooks you open is one of the things the Kindle logs.
This ... makes me very happy that my ereader is not a Kindle!
I think you have to make the assumption that any activity on any internet enabled device is going to be logged. That doesn't mean that it is logged, but it can be and we are too valuable a source of marketing data for businesses to stop doing it.
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