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OK, one more Kindle gripe. When I first set up my Kindle 3 yesterday, I opened a couple of the books that I'd copied over, just to make sure I could. I didn't have a problem, so I assumed that there weren't any DRM issues with the books. I was wrong on that; apparently, I'd picked a couple of DRM-free books when I was checking them. So this morning I had to go through and delete 40 DRM'd books off the Kindle. They all now show in my archive view, and I haven't had any trouble re-downloading a couple of them, but why should I have to do that? The device is registered to my Amazon account, and it's got internet connectivity. Why can't it just quietly go up to Amazon's servers and re-authorize any files I've copied over from the old Kindle?

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