I was very much interested in this product as I am a student and having an eink device to read PDFs on would be an absolute delight. My parents also read alot and I would have recommended they pick one up. However, after reading that Amazon has (at their discretion) remotely deleted purchased books (that's right, you buy the book, and then at some point later Amazon decides you can't have it anymore), not only will I not be picking one up, or recommending this device to anyone, but quite to the contrary, I will be advising people NOT to purchase the Kindle until Amazon drops all DRM on the device and releases the Kindle's software as free software.This a truly sad state for what could have been such a wonderful device