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Why I went from being excited about the Kindle to… not.

April 17, 2009 by

First there was the text-to-speech debacle. I pretty much agree with John Scalzi on the silliness of it all, and yet Amazon both caved to the Author’s Guild on this one and also demonstrated that they maintain a pretty fine level of control over what you’ve already purchased on the device.  I am exactly crazy about this idea.

And now this.

Heck with it.

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  1. Marilee J. Layman says
    April 17, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    We’ve known they planned to do that from the beginning, which is why I’ve never been interested.

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