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Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by timwiseman on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @01:52PM (#3271178)
I also have been extremely happy with my kindle. The closest I have to a complaint is the limit on the number of devices that can be authorized for certain books, and even that is normally reasonable. The cloud based reader accessible through a browser also makes that restriction less painful (though I wish they would enable highlighting...)

But I still have concerns about the DRM. Amazon seems extremely stable, but things in tech move fast. Even if Amazon survives, I may eventually want to move to a completely different reader from a company that doesn't exist now, and the DRM will make it hard to take my library with me.

I love the cloud drive player Amazon rolled out for MP3s, but I have it redundantly backed up on 2 harddrives. With the Kindle content I don't have that option.

Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by Karunamon on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @06:49PM (#3272340)
You can hook your kindle up to your PC and pull the AZW files off if you wish to keep the content backed up.
Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by brazzy on Thursday November 24, 2011 @07:30AM (#3274110)
But what are those files worth if your Amazon account gets mysteriously locked, or Amazon goes bankrupt 10 years from now?