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==== '''Kindle Purchases and Country Restrictions''' ====

Amazon Kindle thinks that [https://x.com/krishnanrohit/status/1772011384206672370 moving to a new country means you should lose all your Kindle books]. Imagine paying to buy a book and then having it disappear as your flight leaves your country’s border. Welcome to 2024.

It gets better. Amazon has instructions on their website to ''“transfer”'' your account, but their own customer service reps are clueless on how any of it works.

Amazon hides behind licensing agreements and geo-restrictions to justify this anti-ownership garbage. While you’re given the '''impression''' you’re ''“purchasing”'' a book, you’re actually just getting a temporary license tied to the country you bought it in. Move countries? f you, buy the book again.

This isn’t about technical limitations. This is about '''control'''. Amazon and companies like it are obsessed with locking down what you own. They know you won’t read the fine print until you’re angry, but by then, it’s too late.

This isn’t just about Kindle. It’s about digital purchases everywhere. You don’t actually own what you buy. Whether it’s Kindle books, movies on Amazon, or games on Sony, the story is the same: they sell you the illusion of ownership &amp; lock you down with restriction after restriction after they’ve pocketed your money. You should consider yourself lucky if they even allow you to keep using what you bought in a restricted manner; sometimes they just take it away &amp; leave you nothing at all.

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