It's Christmas Eve!

[conuly]

yay!

And it turns out that the clock starts ticking on loaned kindle books when they're lent, not when they're downloaded, so now I need to ask some people to send them again. Boo. Amazon, why? WHY?

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Comments

[workday_dreamer]

It, unfortunately, makes all the sense. You don't "buy" books from Amazon. You buy a license to view a book that they own. Meaning that you can't do what you wish with that book like you could with a paperback, once you've bought it.

Dammit, Amazon. You're trying to turn us all into pirates and commies out of sheer frustration!

[conuly]

Okay, but they don't have to deliberately be assholes about the lending policy.

[workday_dreamer]

I know. It's like the pettiest form of dickery you could possibly imagine.

[conuly]

And so counterproductive. It's like they want us to just break the DRM.

[workday_dreamer]

I wonder if they just don't care. Video game publishers do the same thing when it's been clearly proven that DRM does nothing to stop or slow piracy. It only makes life harder for people not pirating their product.