Scrap The Kindle

by tristero

Totally, thoroughly inadequate. There simply are no conditions under which the Kindle model of book delivery is acceptable. No delivery system that permits a corporation or government to alter – never mind delete! – a purchased text can ever be anything than a civil libertarian’s worst nightmare. I don’t care if it’s 1984, the latest Harry Potter, or recipes. I don’t want a license to read the text. I need to own a copy of the text, just as I do with a printed book. Software that permits the alteration of purchased texts must be banned, with stiff penalties for infractions. End of story.

Don’t purchase the Kindle and all similar licensing devices. These things suck, big time, and always will.