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[Shoe Horn]

106. You can't pass a Kindle along to your friends when you're done reading a book on it.

That alone is reason enough for me to spend my money on something more useful.
Fuck the Copyright Mafia.

Also:
1) Having your reading habits used as 'market research' without your permission.
2) Having books you bought erased without warning.
3) One word: batteries.
4) Planned obsolescence. You'll need a new one in 5 years.
5) Drop it in the tub? Oops! There goes your entire library!
6) One more troublesome gadget to mess with and pay for repairs.
7) Not being in control of your own material after purchase.
8) Would make for a very boring 'Pictures of your Bookcase' thread.

Any one of those is enough for me, I just see no use for it.

Not to say they don't have some use. If you're bedridden and arthritic and cannot hold a book.
Which case, you'd seem to have more pressing concerns than reading Moby Dick one last time.

If you have a million reference books that you need at-a-glance.

Etc.

So funny to me that people see this as an either/or internet battle.
And feel so threatened and angry that someone would choose to read a book in a way different than them. 'Grow up'. Right? Unless they're getting paychecks from Amazon or Apple, why even bother getting excited about it?

It's amusing to me.

I think the same thing when I see a Kindle Thread and someone
sounding off about the wholesomeness of paperbacks. Like, wgaf?
Let 'em enjoy their gd shiny techno-trinkets.

I'll probably end up buying one eventually, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be a prick about it and do free advertising, trying to hijack threads over it.