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inigyou

Just make a new account at that point, right?

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Unfortunately for me, a lot of my books are tied to them.

They come into your house and take your books back if you stop using your account?

Kindle / Audible.

so, not books.

If you think a book is made by the physical medium, you must think everything in paper is a book. The prose in a book has certain content structure, intent, and writing.

So unless a napkin and a receipt are books, what actually makes something a book is its content structure, intent, and writing. Not the paper it's printed on.

Number of pages is relevant. If it has five, it's only a booklet.

My Amazon account is, unfortunately, tied to AWS, Prime, Kindle as well as online shopping. I hate this, and I'm in the process of removing all of my stuff from all of these services.

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