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Yet another reason to avoid DRM...

Try to get your DRM'ed Kindle books to any non-Kindle platform.

I can read my Kindle books on my iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Mac, and Windows computer (and soon Android). It's still Amazon's software (which, for the desktop computers, sucks), and it's still DRM'd, but you don't have to have a Kindle to enjoy the Kindle library.

Will you also burn your paper books in case Amazon ceases to exist (or changes its business model)?

How free it is to be free to use only devices that Amazon supports? How yours are your books?

Amazon has the power, and have used it, to remove books from your home that you have already bought. That's insane!

And they learned that's a very very bad idea and aren't going to do it again.

And we should trust them completely.

Even more insane is to give such power to someone on the promise they will never use it again. Or on the promise they will use it responsibly.

1> There are few non-kindle platforms

2> The type of DRM they have is pretty easy to strip:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-strip-mobi-and-prc-ebook...

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