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Wondering how do you feel about the Kindle getting locked, again.
Meh, Kindle is only locked if ya buy ebooks from Amazon. No Kindle has ever been locked for me, because I've sideloade all my DRM-free ebooks, for the last 20 years that I have been using ereaders, including Kindles.
The key here, and this is for any ereader, is never buy an ebook using anyone's specific DRM. Ever.
I think some people are misunderstanding the "locked" Kindle part. Those of us who are inclined to sideload and hack anyway, don't care. And the normies never ever transferred anything via USB anyway.
You can buy a brand new Kindle today, and still load your own books on it. That hasn't changed at all.
I don't support Amazon's take on this, but Grandma Jones likes reading the latest cozie mysteries on her Kindle, and she buys them from her Kindle directly anyway. She doesn't even have a USB. So it's hasn't changed for her at all either.
TL;DR: Nothing has changed for me. DRM is the real evil, and lots of places besides Amazon try that shit.
A shame that it means a sizable amount of books are therefore legally unavailable to you. I understand your ethical motivation to do so though, as I also dodge DRM like the plague. It's the reason why I have barely watched any movies in the last ten years.
Fair point, but I do stick to a huge amount of DRM-Free books that are offered legally, like Baen books, gutenberg, manybooks. For modern mainstream ones, I do buy the paperback version for my shelf, then do what I have to do to get the DRM-free version if you catch my drift. I want the author to be compensated. But when I buy something I want to own it for real, not license it.
But people the biggest consumers of ebooks are women and the genres are romance, light mystery, etc. That consumer target, buys via kindle, reads, deletes and on the the next one. I don't agree with Amazon donig what they are doing at all. But the vast majority of consumers just don't care. Which is how a lot of these sorts of things work. Frustrating for those of us who DO care though!