Paulette
I will buy a Kindle (or similar device) when its book collection is DRM free, and not before. I suspect I am not the only one in this position, and I imagine it is hurting Amazon's sales.
I want to buy books, not rent them. I have no interest in amassing a book collection in a proprietary format which may not be around in 40 years, and from which I have no legal right to convert.
~P.
Yep, I can go with those points, big time.
Just a quick FYI, the Kindle will read vanilla TXT. Drop the file across USB to the Kindle and it appears in the list of books as whatever the file name is. It isn't always pretty to read (that's the nature of TXT), but it is readable.
Josh
Josh, thanks. I had been wondering whether everyone had gone nuts but me. Now I know it was only me... I think... Anyway, what Paulette said. I may or may not be anally retentive, but sure as shelf-space shrinks, I am biblioretentive. Cheers all, Jon