Title: Would have rated 5 stars except for DRM and Writers Guild decision
Product review: The Kindle 2 corrects all of the hardware issues that were so prominent in the original version. It works and it works well.However, we all need to be aware that the DRM added to these "books" makes them unusable except by the buyer and except on a Kindle. We can't sell them or lend them unless we lend the hardware as well as the file. This new world that Bezos and Amazon are building is going to trample on the end-users' rights like nothing has before.The decision to cave to the Writer's Guild on the text-to-speech is both a form of "bait-and-switch" selling and an indication that end-users are secondary to Bezos' plans.Furthermore, the lack of a user changeable battery is bad engineering.Think carefully before buying into this concept of reading.
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