Nate wrote:1. Kindle doesn't support the e-pub format. The Nook does, but I've tried the Nook and I don't like having the touchscreen at the bottom. The e-pub format is important because then you have access to literally hundreds of thousands of free books. On the Kindle, if I want to read Mark Twain, I have to pay for it. On the Nook, I can download Mark Twain for free. But unfortunately, as I said, the hardware for the Nook just doesn't feel right to me.
I thought this too at first, when I was looking through Amazon's bookstore. However, with some looking, I found this site:
http://manybooks.net
It has Mark Twain's works, available for Kindle. And many many more books. I kind of adore it.
2. Licensing. When you buy a hardcover book, you own it. You can sell it, lend it, burn it, whatever. But with an e-book, you never own it. You're only renting it, and so your ownership of the book is at the whim of whomever sold it to you. What if Amazon or Barnes & Noble went bankrupt one day? I'd be in danger of losing all the books I bought (it's the exact same with iTunes, which is why I use Napster and Pandora).
I thought you owned the songs? You can burn them to a CD anyway, which pretty much makes a hard copy of the songs!
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