I was excited to get a Kindle. It is a tremendous boon for quickly purchasing thick, heavy technical manuals, and the portablilty of those formerly heavy tomes can't be beat. The Kindle is also a great way to read books that you don't think you will ever look at after reading, like most novels and pot-boilers.
But the revelation recently that Amazon has the ability to remotely delete content without any intervention on the part of the Kindle owner is alarming and creepy. And the potential for abuse goes beyond deleting books: What if content was surreptitiously edited, replacing the original text?
Just one word: Creepy.
