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Old 05-27-2011, 09:46 PM   #1
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Hi all!

I just bought a Pocketbook 360 Plus. So far, it seems pretty nice.
However, I don't have a favorites icon on the main page; instead I have a registration icon. Is it necessary to register my device? I like the Pocketbook so far, but forced (more or less) registration is enough for me to not recommend Pocketbook.
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Old 05-28-2011, 01:47 AM   #2
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Old 05-28-2011, 02:43 AM   #3
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AFAIK registration is necessary for FW update via WLAN and shopping on Bookland (although it's pretty useless), but I'd register anyway just to avoid these annoying prompts
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Hi all!

I just bought a Pocketbook 360 Plus. So far, it seems pretty nice.
However, I don't have a favorites icon on the main page; instead I have a registration icon. Is it necessary to register my device? I like the Pocketbook so far, but forced (more or less) registration is enough for me to not recommend Pocketbook.
same with the Pro models, and we were all pretty annoyed, on a matter of principle - having said that, unlike Amazon I do not think they keep tabs on what is on your machine, etc. You will be able to access Bookland, which as troll05 is pretty useless at the moment.
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Old 05-28-2011, 10:34 AM   #5
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Why would you not want to register it?
I shouldn't have to, but apparently unless I do I won't have a "Favorites" menu item. As paola points out, it's a matter of principle. I just bought it --- it shouldn't start off less than fully functional. This is an unfortunate thing for Pocketbook to do and it gives me a less than favorable impression of the company.

It looks like I'll be returning it.

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Myself I compromised and registered, still i won't be using the shop without some major changes.
Treating paying customers of your products as if they downloaded a piece of shareware is not acceptable.
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Old 05-29-2011, 03:54 AM   #7
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Myself I compromised and registered, still i won't be using the shop without some major changes.
Treating paying customers of your products as if they downloaded a piece of shareware is not acceptable.
There are many products that require registration prior to use. Pocketbook are doing nothing "wrong" here. If you don't like it, buy something else.
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Old 05-29-2011, 06:08 AM   #8
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No, proper software has 3 ,possibilities:
Register now
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Old 05-29-2011, 11:35 AM   #9
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Ah, OK. Obviously then, for example, the Amazon Kindle doesn't have "proper software" either .
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Old 05-29-2011, 01:54 PM   #10
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But you don't have to register your Kindle, Amazon kindly does this for you with a built in backdoor-access to your purchases
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I actually registered in order to look for offers at the webshop.. because a message told me registering would give me some bonus, which I figured would be something along the line of a joinup credit. Turns out there was no such thing, and indeed, next to nothing in the webshop at all. I went digging quite a lot but the "universal content store" consistently tells me I'm not even allowed to buy things, supposedly because of region locking. It's just a pile of insults.
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But you don't have to register your Kindle, Amazon kindly does this for you with a built in backdoor-access to your purchases
If you buy the Kindle in a store, rather than direct from Amazon, it (obviously) comes unregistered. Much of the functionality is disabled to encourage you to register.
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Ah, OK. Obviously then, for example, the Amazon Kindle doesn't have "proper software" either .

Maybe. But with the big shop behind it Amazon can allow itself not to have "proper software" whereas Pocketbook has nothing to offer in return for the registration.



Sometimes, when the Pocketbook is connected to my computer anyway, I set back "regcount=" in global.cfg to 1. Of course, this doesn't take less time than simply click away the registration screen but it gives me the feeling of doing something actively against this repeated annoying request.
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If you buy the Kindle in a store, rather than direct from Amazon, it (obviously) comes unregistered. Much of the functionality is disabled to encourage you to register.
If I had bought my kindle in a store instead of from Amazon, which functionality would have been disabled?
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Maybe. But with the big shop behind it Amazon can allow itself not to have "proper software" whereas Pocketbook has nothing to offer in return for the registration.

Sometimes, when the Pocketbook is connected to my computer anyway, I set back "regcount=" in global.cfg to 1. Of course, this doesn't take less time than simply click away the registration screen but it gives me the feeling of doing something actively against this repeated annoying request.
Are you saying that setting regcount=1 in global.cfg disables the registration screen only one time? Then the system somehow determines that there has been no registration and
resets regcount?

I have a PB 360, which has no registration screen that I have ever seen, but I am considering getting a PB 360+ to be able to transfer files over wifi.
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