The problem is that licensing agreements — legal contracts — are allowed to be more restrictive than ‘the law’. When we agree to abide by a license, we generally renounce the Right of First Sale.

But. If we stop entering into licensing agreements of this nature, and as a result do indeed end up ‘owning’ our e-books, we will probably be allowed to have only a single copy. Very likely meaning, bye-bye to the handy ‘cloud’ and safe digital library at Amazon. But we could sell, trade, lend, or whatever, that file. And while the file was lent, we would *not be allowed to possess the file*.

I’d like Right of First Sale; but I do not want anything electronic to be treated as a print analogue. Remember those early Sony Readers that did not permit *searching*, underlining or highlighting? Definitely not for me. So I’m still a little torn. Waiting for someone more imaginative than I am to come up with a good solution to this quandary.

For now, the limitations of the Kindle and my electronic book purchases from Amazon are pretty invisible to me, because so far they don’t conflict with how I use my device. But as of now, I have only two acquaintances who also own Kindles — no friends, yet.

The 2.3 update has been installed manually on my K2. Much has been said about new screen savers, but I haven’t been able to see them. Are they just more pictures added to the Dead Authors pictures or is there some other way to get at them I haven’t figured out yet?

Thanks for all of the work you do enlightening the Kindle community.
Dave Deitrick