....and, mentioned on the main page that it's the Webmaster's review, not Project Gutenberg's review. -- Greg
You still have the problem Greg that the content of the review is not truthful. I download books directly from my Kindle Fire to my Kindle Fire all the time, directly from the PG site. It can be done and it is being done. Not as well as on previous Kindles, however. I wouldn't call it "locked down." I would simply call it "not a particularly competent software implementation." In contrast B&N products used to make it impossible to download directly from PG, but now at least their tablet makes it pretty clean and easy. One can still "trivially" move content to the Kindle Fire using the "Send to Kindle" application, which is actually very convenient. When I'm doing book dev for example, when I come to a good stopping point, I save my changes, hit "Send to Kindle" and then go check out my process on my Kindle Fire. In summary, his hysteria is based on him not knowing how to use the product. I also don't get any ads, because I made the choice, which was mine to make, that I didn't want to get any ads. He chose to get the ads, and is now throwing a fit about it. Now mind you, if I had to try to write a sausage-maker app that took all the html crap that volunteers throw at it, and try to grind that all down to the narrow subset of html that Mobi7 actually supports, I would be throwing fits too. Mobi8 ain't too bad by comparison -- Mobi7 sucks. And again, Google is itself doing some very bad things in the world of "risen to the public domain books" -- restricting their distribution by licensing agreement among colleges. And Apple in turn is well-known for its "lock you in" monopolistic practices. So: buyer beware, and watch out for the fanatics aka "fans" of one or the other companies.