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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
. . . I like the freedom that comes from carrying a bookstore with me where ever I go. It means that I am not tied to a computer to buy a book or download a book.
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Ok, you like carrying around a book store, that's fine. I like borrowing books electronically from my local library and having those books available on my Sony.
I don't do any serious travel without my Netbook, so I could use it's WiFi to either purchase a book while traveling, or check one out via the web from my local library.
Usually however, this is simply not necessary, because I always have at least six (and usually more than a dozen) unread titles queued up and ready on my Sony.
Also, I was not recommending to anyone that they assume that the DRM restrictions placed on their e-books and reader device can be easily circumvented, and ignore these restrictions when making their buying decision.
Stripping DRM, even from material you own, may or may not be legal depending on where you live, and with changes in technology may not always be easy to accomplish.
If you own a Kindle, it may be currently possible to strip the DRM from ADE library books, so they can be converted and read on the Kindle, but Adobe has updated their encryption many times in the past, so I wouldn't count on this option always being available.
So on the contrary, I would recommend that you assume that you will have to play by the rules, when deciding on your reader, because that may become your ONLY option.
"Playing by the rules" has allowed me to read more than 60 e-books checked out from my local library [titles that would have cost me more than $500 dollars to read from Amazon]
Currently it may be possible for me to un-swindle Kindle content, so I could convert Kindle books to EPUB and read them on the Sony, but as I stated, so far at least I haven't found any need to do so.
If tomorrow that option disappeared, due to some new advance in DRM technology, then I wouldn't be too upset.
As I said, I would prefer not to buy books from Amazon at all, unless they clean up their act and support EPUB.
Having access to Amazon on my book reader would be just peachy, if Amazon didn't work so hard to make sure that this was my ONLY option like they do on the Kindle.