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Originally Posted by cpegg
So sad, Amazon. Bricking up the few gaps in your wall will keep out more people than you keep in.
I started out with a Nook, buying books from Barnes and Noble. I ditched them as soon as they made it quite difficult to download books to a PC for side-loading to a reader.
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I am the same--started with Nook and ditched them as soon as they made downloading difficult. In my case, the situation was exacerbated by the way that BN swallowed up Fictionwise. I merged my nook library with my fictionwise library, which promptly broke the wifi transfer function because my library had too many titles.
My library is much larger now because I am a sucker for those one-day sales. It's convenient to have books in my kindle library (though I have often purchased from kobo). But I have lost books before because they were locked in an old format (geb, lit . . .) and don't want to spend money on books that I can't transfer to whatever device I want to read on.
I'm viewing these latest changes with a mix of apprehension and relief. Apprehension because I like the current setup. Relief because maybe it will break my purchasing addiction. My calibre library is already huge, plus my public library loans out ebooks, so it's not like I will run out of things to read.