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Old 01-22-2013, 05:16 PM   #31
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No, it's not hypocritical. If a publisher wants to have some kind of drm he can't do otherwise. Outside Amazon, he can't sell a mobi book with drm, even if he would like so.
(You can of course argue that he could sell the epub with watermark too...)
That's what I meant. Why laden the ePub with DRM so it has locks and no keys where the Mobi is without locks.
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Old 01-22-2013, 05:34 PM   #32
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Chi pointed me to empik and nexto (both .pl) and both are offering epubs watermarked

So who wants to learn a wee bit complex but beautiful new language?

We'll see... Until the guys meet the 1st polish girls - reading will then no longer matter.
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nexto also allows to send directly to kindle. I just pray it stays this way, so convenient, no drm, 3 formats available, no hassle...

... except those embedded heavy fonts, to go back to topic.
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Old 01-23-2013, 06:43 AM   #34
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Those books are sadly not in English. But here is a screenshot I took of my online library with 3 types available to download plus where I underlined "watermark" for mobi (epub is DRMed from what I saw)

the site is empik.com. They do have international catalogue in English and German but I think only on paper.
Thanks - that's very interesting!
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Old 01-27-2013, 03:21 AM   #35
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Why would you remove the fonts? In most cases, they make the eBooks look better.
When I had a Nook STR I bought a copy of Wire In the Blood by Val McDermid from B&N. It was stuck with this font that was so light, you couldn't read the book. I even spent an hour in the store with the Nook people trying to make it legible.

I finally ended up pirating a copy just so I could change the font into something legible.
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Old 01-27-2013, 11:22 PM   #36
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When I had a Nook STR I bought a copy of Wire In the Blood by Val McDermid from B&N. It was stuck with this font that was so light, you couldn't read the book. I even spent an hour in the store with the Nook people trying to make it legible.

I finally ended up pirating a copy just so I could change the font into something legible.
Thank you for that. I totally forgot the "it's an inappropriate font for eInk" reason.
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I had font problems with the Dresden ebooks. They came with a perfect font for print but one almost unreadable on eink. Highly annoying.
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