walter said:

I don't get this. I was talking about the iLiad, which works fine without DRM and Feedbook, which allows DRM unencumbered downloads of their public domain and creative commons books.

yes, walter, we know the iliad doesn't have d.r.m. that's good. except it means that the iliad doesn't read d.r.m. books. so, no, of course you're not gonna lose any d.r.m. books, because you don't have any of 'em to lose in the first place. and if you lost public domain or creative commons books, you'd just go and re-fetch them, which is exactly what a kindle owner would do if they lost their public domain or creative commons books, which yes, they can read just fine. the d.r.m. books that the kindle-owners have, the ones that don't do you any good, are the ones they worry about losing. i'd recommend backing them up. if amazon does belly-up, you can crack the back-up, future hackers will tell you how. (let's pretend that current hackers haven't figured it out yet.) -bowerbird ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcn...)