Ouch, can you not change the contact/billing info on it like other stuff you can sell?

Of course you can, you deauthorize it, and of course if your kindle is lost/stolen that's the first thing you do. But all *your* book purchases will then be removed. Otherwise someone could spend $50,000 at Amazon and resell Kindles for more with their entire library on it.

Why thousands of books? Not to be a dick or anything, but is she ever really gonna read them all?

Once you do deactivate it, all books you purchased through Amazon will be removed from it. Just FYI.

Maybe if we put an "i" in front of it then.

Someone was listening, G. Kindle's Free Iphone Application

1) I don't read 1000 books at a time. Do you?
2) I can toss a paperback book in the floorboard of my car, put my feet on it, sit on it and generally be a total dickwad to my book. With a Kindle, there are about 2 places in my car I can put it without worrying it will be crushed or damaged. Not so for my true portable devices, which fit in all sorts of places.

1) I don't listen to 1000 songs at a time. Do you? God, MP3 players suck!

2) You must have a very small car.

3) Kindles are much more comfortable to read than an Iphone, but of course this has already been said.

This is not true.

I have done this with 4 Kindles now. The one I sold as soon as my new one arrived has been deactivated/reactivated 3 times over multiple accounts and none of the books vanished, not even the samples. Some were saved to the memory card, some to the Kindle, it made no difference. All remained.

Blind group protests Kindle's read-aloud limits

Updated Wed. Apr. 8 2009 8:26 AM ET

The Associated Press

NEW YORK -- A group representing the blind and other people with disabilities protested limitations to the new read-aloud feature on Amazon.com Inc.'s latest Kindle electronic reader Tuesday, arguing that the restrictions unfairly limit their access to e-books.

The feature, which reads text in a stiff-sounding electronic voice, is still available for all books on the new Kindle, which was unveiled in February. The Kindle is not available in Canada.

The Authors Guild has expressed concern that the new feature will hurt sales of audio books, so Amazon plans to give publishers and authors the ability to silence the text-to-speech function for their books.

That is what prompted the newly formed Reading Rights Coalition, whose supporters include the National Federation of the Blind and the American Association of People with Disabilities, to stage what it called an "informational protest" outside the office of the Authors Guild in New York.

The protesters shouted "We want access sooner" and "Stop the greed, we want to read."

Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind, said the protest was the first of several to come around the country, in the hopes that Amazon will change its stance. The group started with the Authors Guild because it "caused the trouble" with the text-to-speech feature, Maurer said.

The number of books Amazon has made available for the Kindle -- more than 260,000 so far -- is "huge" compared to the 50,000 to 60,000 books generally available through libraries for the blind, he said. It is not known how many of these Kindle books now have the text-to-speech feature disabled.

Maurer said he doesn't buy the notion that the feature could hurt sales of audio books. He said the function might even help audio book sales because "if you get a taste of it, you might want the other version," he said.

In a statement, the Authors Guild called the protest "unfortunate and unnecessary."

The group reiterated an earlier suggestion that the Federation of the Blind take advantage of an exception to the Copyright Act that lets visually impaired people access audio versions of copyrighted books.

"Technology makes this step easy: Certified users of existing Kindles could activate their devices online to enable access to voice-output versions of all e-books. This process could be ready to go within weeks," the Guild said.

Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener said the company had no comment.

Wouldn't it make sense that authors would want blind people buying there books right away instead of waiting for a cassette tape version to come out? Or are they just trying to protect the people who make a living off of reading a book to a tape recorder?

"Here, you can spend $10.95 for a non-audio version of The Stand for your Kindle, read outloud to you by Mr. MIDI the voicemail dude, or you can spend $10.95 for the audio version of the The Stand for your Kindle, and have it read outloud to you by Morgan Freeman."

For academic purposes other than performance, single or multiple copies of excerpts of works may be made, provided that the excerpts do not comprise a part of the whole which would constitute a performable unit such as a section, movement or aria, but in no case more than 10 percent of the whole work. The number of copies shall not exceed one copy per pupil

It is the same with a Church Choir. Every year they are audited for music copyrights. A copyright auditor will go through the church looking for any violation of copyright law -- sheet music, copies from hymnals, even scripts for musicals must be originals.

There is a hefty fine for any violation.