From Engad­get

after down­load­ing my copy of Freako­nom­ics to my Kin­dle 1, my iPhone and iPod touch. I dis­cov­ered I couldn’t down­load the book to my Kin­dle 2. I kept get­ting error after error that sim­ply said this book can’t be loaded on this device. A lit­tle time with Google revealed I was not alone. It seems there’s a finite num­ber of times each book can be down­loaded, even if it’s down­loaded to the same device. This num­ber is set by the pub­lisher and varies from book to book, but Ama­zon never men­tions this, and there’s no indi­ca­tion of it any­where dur­ing the pur­chase process. In short, it obvi­ates the rea­son why one would buy an e-book in the first place. If I want to read Freako­nom­ics at this point, I either have to find a device that I’m no longer using that has that con­tent on it or buy a new copy

and then there’s the whole 1984 fiasco, where Ama­zon went onto peo­ples devices and deleted already paid for content.

I really wanted a Kin­dle too.