Tetsubo
First Post
Do you rent or own your place or residence? Do you own or lease your car? (or did you take out a loan for it?) In these cases, you don't own the thing you pay money for, but it is still yours to use.
And the Kindle II is just so sweet, how can it be such a failure?? The dang thing can store about 1500 titles on it! I don't think I could read that many in 20 years, and in that time, they will be selling the Kindle IX with audible-holo-type.
Anyway, my point is that we rent stuff all the time in our lives and this is such a reasonably priced item that it's not really worth getting worked up about.
And, as others have said, you're just "renting" the data. Oh, and the correct term is "subscribing".
Can I loan or resell the books on my Kindle? What happens if I drop my Kindle? A Kindle is *much* more likely to be stolen over a book. What happens if the Kindle format goes out of style?
I can loan or resell my books forever. If I drop one I dust it off and move on. I've never had a book stolen. Books as we know them have exists for centuries.
In addition the Kindle itself is expensive. I rarely pay more than $3 for a book. I can also read a book without electricity any time the sun is out.
The Kindle is simply a device that does not suit my life. Books are physical things.