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Do you know where your copy of 1984 is?


I know where mine is: in my car.

However, had I purchased 1984 for Amazon’s Kindle I would have woken up this morning to find that it had been deleted.

You don’t own the ebooks you buy for the Kindle. Anybody telling you different is a fool.

Of course, it was irony of ironies that the books in question were written by George Orwell. A corporation reaching into your home in the middle of the night to remove things you thought you’d purchased? Eric Blair is spinning in his grave.

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  1. #1 by Jeff on 17 July 2009 - 11:50 am

    …and with this, Amazon has just demonstrated the big reason why I won’t buy a Kindle.

    Encumbered media sucks, and I try my best not to pay for it (unless I have a way to un-encumber it).

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