Whoops, was typing that when you said about where the buttons are Bill, thanks to both of you guys!
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Originally Posted by abookreader
With Adobe you set up an account with Adobe Digital Editions and then you register your "device" to that account.
There is a limit (I think it is 6 but I'm not sure) of how many devices can be registered to one Adobe Digital Account. Once you reach that limit you can contact Adobe and they will free up the space from the old devices you aren't using anymore. People have reported problems in actually getting Adobe to do that.
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Okay, so this is for just Nook? Nook and Sony? What you're describing actually sounds worse than Amazon's DRM, since it's activation, AND you can't free up a slot by deleting a book/device, like you (supposedly) do with Amazon.
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My advice is to learn how to liberate your books of DRM and buy your digital reader based on the device that has the features you like. After all, if you buy a nook or a Sony next - won't you want to read your Amazon books that you've bought on that device and whatever devices you own in the future?
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Yeah, if it was legal that's what I'd do-I mean to be clear I do not steal, and would only want to be DRM free so I can actually really own the books I'm buying and keep access to them forever, on whatever device I felt like. But because of the DMCA and all that nonsense in the U.S. I'm too scared to even look into it.
I think Amazon's got an advantage with this stuff by at least being straight forward...this ePub stuff is STILL completely confusing me, even after reading everything I can find, and having several people try to explain it!
So at any rate it sounds like the people who said ePub used passwords instead of activation (as you in you don't have to 'phone home' to the mothership, any compatible device can read something just by punching in the password encoded in the book)....sounds like that's NOT the case for Sony or Nook.
I'll have to stare at Fictionwise though...check them to see if they sell a DRM free version of a book before buying it elsewhere, next time I buy a book! Last book I bought was Greg Bear's The Forge of God...Fictionwise has it, and I guess without DRM...for the same price I paid at Amazon. Should have done that, had I known!