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Originally Posted by jen6060
hi mgmueller - i'm curious about how you deal with the need for more ADE activations with your numerous readers. Do they give you an open ticket? I just bumped up against the need for more activations, and they've done that for me. But i'm wondering how many they freed up etc, and this thing about - if i sell a reader, and deactivate, does that actually free up an activation for me? It seems from the other posts elsewhere that it doesnt..
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That's really a problem and I absolutely hate it.
ADE may be the quasi-standard. But I'd love to avoid it because of that.
I permanently (well, let's say 3 to 4 times per year) have to beg ADOBE for new activations. So far I've got them. But it often takes up to 3 weeks. 3 weeks in which you can't use your new gadget (at least not the official way).
So, from time to time, I proactively ask for a new activation, even if I don't have a new reader already. Unfortunately, you can't check your activation status. So you never know, whether your new reader will be accepted or not.
Honestly, this led to strip my ePUBs from DRM so some readers never had to be activated.
Deactivating any reader
DOES NOT free the activation, that's the problem.
I'd like to be able to manage my units, similar to "manage my Kindle" on the Amazon website.
Then I easily could decide: I'm using readers #1, #3 and #5, the rest can be de-activated.
My problem is not the number of parallel activations. 3 to 5 would be fine.
My problem is: Once activated, the reader counts against your activations and you, as an end-user, can't change anything.
In my opinion far from being efficient.
