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^ That pretty much sums up my attitude about kindle and anything like it.
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About a year and a half ago, my sister and her family bought me an e-book reader for my birthday: I don't recall if it was Kindle or what. Unfortunately, they hadn't gotten my input on the topic. Then, at dinner, before I opened my presents, the subject of e-books came up, and I made it very clear that I didn't care for the idea. I didn't notice the mortified silence on their part. The mortified silence on my part came when I opened the gift and discovered they'd given me what I'd just been verbally trashing.
Luckily, they'd saved the receipt.
If I were still in the Army, I might go for e-books as a way to travel light -- although a lot of what I like to read is obscure enough these days that it's unlikely to be available in e-form (that was one of my main reasons for disliking the notion). But then again, with reports like this, maybe I wouldn't.
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I like the idea of eReaders... but Amazon ensured years ago I would not buy a Kindle when they did that mass remote deletion of George Orwell's 1984 in response to the fact that the vendor actually didn't have the rights to do a digital release of the title.
I do have an eReader now. It's a Nook 1st Edition. I got it when my mom upgraded to a Nook SimpleTouch. I have yet to buy eBooks from B&N though. If I buy any, it will probably be via Baen (always been DRM free) or Tor (just went DRM free this year).
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Good for her.
I have a Kindle, but I use it almost exclusively for fanfiction and public-domain ebook files. I think I've bought maybe three books from Amazon for it in the two years I've had it.
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So, what's good on Kobo?
(I discovered a few weeks ago that my tablet has a Kobo app...)
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"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
