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Related to my last post about the Kindle, Amazon apparently has a service called Amazon Upgrade<\/a>, whereby you can pay an additional charge on top of the fee you pay for the physical copy of the book to get a digital copy that you can access from "any Internet-connected computer."<\/p>\n

But this doesn’t work with Kindle.\u00a0 WTF!!!!@!#!\u00a0 And not only that, but all the titles available for Kindle aren’t available via Amazon Upgrade.<\/p>\n

Come on, guys.\u00a0 You’re so close to having exactly what I want.\u00a0 Close the deal!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Related to my last post about the Kindle, Amazon apparently has a service called Amazon Upgrade, whereby you can pay an additional charge on top of the fee you pay for the physical copy of the book to get a digital copy that you can access from "any Internet-connected computer." But this doesn’t work with … Continue reading Amazon Upgrade<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ictG-27","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130,"url":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/i-want-to-want-the-kindle-so-much\/","url_meta":{"origin":131,"position":0},"title":"I want to want the Kindle so much!","author":"john","date":"December 7, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I've wanted a killer ebook reader for years: a decade or more.\u00a0 When I first read about E Ink I was psyched and thought for sure someone would produce the device I wanted, which is basically exactly what's pictured here in Amazon's ad. 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