Title: Fantastic hardware attached to abusive terms of service
Product review: I have been reading ebooks for a number of years now, sometimes off a computer screen, sometimes on my Palm, more recently on my netbook. I must say that the Kindle has been truly tempting me since it's release. The idea of an e-ink device coupled with the wireless store and some of the other fantastic features of the Kindle are truly luscious.Unfortunately Amazon's terms of services basically reduce "buying" books from them to "renting on sufferance". You can keep the books for a time (if we don't decide to delete them). You can only read them on this one device. Oh, and don't even think about having our text-to-speech engine read you robotic bedtime stories (screw you vision impaired people!) You can re-download them (until we tell you you can't - but we won't tell you how downloads is too many!).Amazon, why don't you want my money? Why can't you just provide good hardware and software and allow me to *buy* books from you?
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