[TriLUG] [OT] Kindle jeers? [Was e-mail suckback]

[Brian]

While Amazon can remove books from your Kindle, you can bet they'll think
twice before doing it again. Besides, it took them 1.5 years to pull books;
it's so infrequent that you probably shouldn't be concerned about it.

Regarding PDFs, they often come out poorly on the Kindle from what I hear.
You certainly can't really read PDFs that include much fancier formatting
than pain text; the Kindle's screen simply doesn't have the resolution to do
that. The device doesn't reflow text and images since PDF is a layout format
and not just a content container.

-Brian


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Brian Henning <lugmail at cheetah.dynip.com>wrote:

> Hi Gang,
>
> This recent thread and the mention of Kindle has given me a good setup to
> ask -- what's bad about Kindle?  I was thinking about getting one of the 2G
> models, with their nice slimness and ability to read any TXT or PDF file.
> The implication just now is that Amazon can make unreadble a book you've
> paid for after the fact.  Is that true?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Brian
>
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