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Re:The Book vs. The Kindle by andreyf on Thursday July 30, 2009 @11:07PM (#733656)
If I could carry around all of my kindle books and a pdf of my homework assignments

New kindle supports pdf (and anything you can translate into pdf).

Amazon is remotely deleting books that people have legitimately purchased

If you defined "legitimately" as "gave money for", yes. Legally, no. Just because I pay money and think a transaction is legal doesn't make it so.

Re:The Book vs. The Kindle by conorgil145 on Friday July 31, 2009 @09:12AM (#734318)
Just because I pay money and think a transaction is legal doesn't make it so.

That is true. However, that is again Amazon's fault because they sold him the book without having the rights to do so. Instead of admitting their mistake and using excellent customer service to fix the problem they just deleted the book without any thought for the customer. They could have sent him a paper copy without him even asking, notified him before the deletion so he could save his notes and/or dealt with the publisher directly and obtained the rights to avoid the whole situation.