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Originally Posted by DJHARKAVY
How do you confirm that?
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How do you confirm it with library books?
I would say, easiest thing to do would be to have some extension of that, where the book require a check in every so often, or else it "expires". It contacts a central server, sees you still have the book in your name, and is good for how ever long it is till the next check in. If it sees you don't have it in your name, it expires and you can no longer read it.
Say it would require you to sync every six weeks, the ebook reader would see it no differently as a library book, with a expiration of six weeks, so no firmware updates really needed. On the desktop, you have ADE sync with the servers when ever, and each time it does that, it updates the ebook, and the updated ebook gets dropped on the reader next time it is connected and synced.
Now, it would be a pain in the butt, requiring frequent checks, etc and if the servers were ever down you'd be SOL. I really don't see a better way, without changing firmware on a bunch of different readers, or having the books be incompatible some how with older ones.