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Originally Posted by hapax legomenon
Are there any commercial ebook systems where you don't need special USB drivers to put commercial content on the machine? (where presumably the validation would exist on the device and not the PC).
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Sure. If you have a device which uses MobiPocket, for example, you can buy content from any of the numerous web sites which sell such books, enter your device's MobiPocket ID (a hex string which acts as an encryption key) on the web site, download the book to your PC, and transfer it to your reading device via a memory card. Virtually all bookreaders support memory cards of one kind or another.
Then there are a large number of DRM-free eBooks (both free and commercial) where there's no issue - again just transfer via a memory card.