Question for those with a Kindle

[Dave Scarpa]

Why I went with a Sony, I can still read using their SW on a Laptop, I buy my books in .lit and convert and I can read on my Axim 51 if I need or my 505.

 

[FalTorPan]

JWolf said:

FalTorPan said:

Steve Roby said:
Why do you think people are bitching about it? In the ebook world, DRM is used, among other things, to prevent people from printing ebooks out, from copying and pasting passages to another document, and from freely copying the ebooks they've bought from one computer to another. You may also be tied to a particular version of a particular program.

When you buy a print book, you can read it anywhere, anytime. It's yours, period. No, you can't photocopy the whole thing and sell it, but you can read it now and read it again twenty years from now without worrying about whether it's in a format that's no longer supported. You can pass it around to your friends, who can read it. You can sell it to a used bookstore and someone else can buy it, and repeat the process over the decades.

If you have a print version of a book, it doesn't matter if the publisher or the software producer goes out of business, it doesn't matter if your computer crashes and you replace it with one running another operating system, or if your credit card is stolen and you need to replace it. The print book will still keep on working. That's not necessarily the case with ebooks using DRM.

Yup, which is why paper is the final frontier. Screw eBooks, and let the Kindle be kindling.

I am sorry your mind is so closed.

Don't be. I'm not.

 

[JWolf]

The thing I really like about eBooks is that I am the sort of person who tends to have multiple books in progress at the same time. This way, I can take one simple device (Sony Reader PRS-505) along with me and pick and choose which of those books I want to read when the fancy strikes me. Right now, I am concentrating on finishing Sword of Damocles. Then it's off to another SCE story from there and maybe back to reading more of The Stand. But could you imaging having to haul around with me Sword of Damocles, The Stand, and an SCE omnibus? That would be a bit much to have to carry with me when I leave the house.