This report is about freedom of choice. I hope this doesn't sound too philosophical but there are distinct differences between the kindle Bookstore to online entrance of ebooks, papers and blogs.

Let us think some typical books. You can buy 2 types of books. Reference (these will comprise formula books) and reading. For most population a reference book is bought to go into their reference library at home and be brought out on query at any time. Reading books are there to be read. The majority of time population read a book once, and then they are put away. However, a book has some value and it can be sold or given to person else who has expressed an interest in the topic of the book or in something by the same author. You purchase a book and it is your property to arrange of as you wish when you have terminated with it.

Kindle

A book purchased from the kindle bookshop for your kindle can only be used on that kindle with your list and not on any other. You have no rights to the text to sell it afterwards, or even to give it away. There is a promise from Amazon that in the event of your Kindle being stolen you can block the old machine and have all the books you have purchased from Amazon downloaded onto the new Kindle you buy from Amazon. After you die there is no residual value for whatever on the Kindle. If you want person else to read a book on the Kindle then you have to lend them yours, you cannot loan the book to them or sell the book to them. Personally I feel that this business model defeats the whole object of getting an ebook reader.

What about the Asus?

Use your popular browser and quest for free ebooks. What is the result? For me I found http://www.free-ebooks.net , http://www.gutenberg.org (with over 25,000 titles), and the list could go on. Yes these can be downloaded onto the Kindle but then you lose half of the advantage of having the machine the always-on Internet access. The Internet entrance is for you to download your ebooks from Amazon's Kindle shop immediately. You can get what you want, when you want it.

Consider also a growing family; there are 3 children each within a year of their closest sibling. You buy all the children a Kindle and each year you load their textbooks and reading materials onto the Kindle for that year. Then that Kindle passes to the next child and the next. They cannot keep their own machine as the Kindle license is for one machine only.

I have not forgotten about entrance to newspapers and blogs. In order to get updates of newspapers and blogs on the Kindle you have to subscribe and each subscription means you pay, once the trial duration is over. If you trip outside the Usa for a duration on business or delight you'll get the blogs and the newspapers delivered to your Kindle when you get within range of the Usa movable phone transmitter. For the vast majority of readers the newspapers will be out of date on your return, but you still have to download them all. With the Asus you can entrance the web sites of these newspapers for free once you are at a WiFi hub. The same with your popular blogs. You can keep up to date and not have a pile of reading when you get home. whatever that needs to be looked at when you return home can be e-mailed to your home computer for a reveal later.

The Kindle is a great machine but to lock all your ebooks inside it may be unhelpful. Your choice.

Asus Eee Or Amazon Kindle

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