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07-19-2009, 07:04 PM | #92 | |
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07-19-2009, 07:21 PM | #93 |
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07-19-2009, 09:45 PM | #94 | |
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They served essentially as an improved Google search on "torrent." |
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07-19-2009, 11:25 PM | #95 |
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The moral of the story is ..."Don't own a Kindle." However from today's news, Amazon have announced,that in future, they will not be removing any more "purchased" books.
Just remember...There are a whole heap of e-book readers to choose from, that have no association, with either Amazon or Kindle. |
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07-19-2009, 11:51 PM | #96 |
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They served essentially as a means to download pirated material.
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07-20-2009, 12:11 AM | #97 |
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This doesn't surprise me, Amazon told me soon after I got my Kindle, that if , for example, they lost the rights to publish a particular book in Kindle format, it would be deleted from my media library on their servers.
That is another reason I recommend backing up to a hard drive or another server. They did note that I could request a refund, but my concern is that I would no longer have the book I thought I had purchased, but in their view I had only lisenced to read. So, I back up "my" books, and if Amazon deletes them, I will still have access to them. |
07-20-2009, 12:28 AM | #98 |
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Except most of the torrents on The Pirate Bay are on The Pirate Bay's own tracker. If they were solely a search engine, you would have a point (but they aren't and you don't)
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07-20-2009, 01:42 AM | #99 | |
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I asked the question before - but the pro Amazon members never have an answer. I guess it is one of those cases where the the owner of a good has to justify there purchase at all cost and therefore placed a heavy reality distortion field around them. Filtering out question for which the answer is not the answer they would like to give. Last edited by krischik; 07-20-2009 at 01:51 AM. Reason: spelling |
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07-20-2009, 09:34 AM | #100 | |
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07-20-2009, 12:28 PM | #101 |
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The ones who justify any Amazon action no matter how stupid, unethical and probably illegal that action is. It's not a new phenomenon - you'll find this kind of almost religious fanatism in other on-line communities (e.g. Apple fans, Widnows fans, Linux fans, etc).
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07-20-2009, 12:44 PM | #102 | |
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I believe there are very few totally if any "pro-Amazon" only posters. We have all had our issues with their actions (you only have check post histories to confirm - I myself have been burned) and swing on the pendulum depending on our personal experiences with a particular issue. There is enough blindness all around. |
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07-20-2009, 12:47 PM | #103 |
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It's a bit silly for anyone to be fanatically "pro" or "anti" any company, don't you think? As I've made clear, I personally have no issue at all with what Amazon have done here. Others feel differently - that's fine, too. On the other hand, I think Amazon made a real mess of the Kindle DX. We should judge each issue on its individual merits; that really strikes me as the only rational thing to do. The fact that we may hold different opinions about things is just human nature - it doesn't mean that anyone is "right" or "wrong".
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07-20-2009, 01:28 PM | #104 | |
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My consciousness has constructed a particularly grim "hell" for all those who disagree with me. Last edited by Sonist; 07-20-2009 at 01:33 PM. |
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07-20-2009, 01:52 PM | #105 |
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If you back up your .mbp files as well as the .azw files, you will have your annotations.
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