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by cirotix 5016 days ago
Minus the fact that there are some DRM in the Kindle books which is rather anoying.

PDF is an open standard, the Kindle format is not.
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kika 5016 days ago
Kindle DRM doesn't annoy me at all. I'm not annoyed by just the existence of some technology, I'm annoyed if this technology hurts my ability to do what I want to do. I do want to read books on iPad, iPhone, Mac, PC and Kindle. I'm able to. If I wanted to steal books I could have been annoyed, but I don't want to.
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prodigal_erik 5016 days ago
1984 demonstrated that your ability depends on the continued goodwill and competence of Amazon, who reserved for themselves the power to steal any of your Kindle store purchases.
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goldfeld 5016 days ago
That case was so ironic I thought you were referring to George Orwell there for a minute.
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pattern 5016 days ago
For those such as myself that didn't catch the reference, nor hear about this the first time around: "Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle" [1].

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18ama...

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jamesbritt 5016 days ago
Luckily there are easy to use tools to remove Kindle DRM and treat the book as if it were something you bought.
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