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Originally Posted by queentess
I find it really amazing the number of newbies that stumble in here and proclaim they will never use Amazon because they are proprietary. Amazon is not the only proprietary vendor. But if you're going to strip drm, there's really no reason to avoid a particular vendor (except iBooks).
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Relax, I'm not proclaiming anything. I only have a tendency not to use Amazon as they use a different format which occasionally has issues converting to epub (although I hear this is often minor). They do however have ebooks which aren't available anywhere else, although this seems to be less and less these days. So I will probably still use them from time to time.
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Originally Posted by queentess
Ah, but what flavor of DRM do they read? There is not just one kind. Amazon has it, B&N has it, Borders has it, iBooks has it...
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Adobe DE DRM. Which apart from a couple of the main bookstores, Amazon, ibooks, (and B&N seems to use Adobe ereader DRM) most others seemt to use this. Anyway ebooks with DRM unfortunately don't have the flexibility I need so I probably won't use this route unfortunately.
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Originally Posted by queentess
iBooks DRM hasn't been cracked. And I can't be sure, but I really doubt it's easy to use Calibre with iBooks. Apple likes it's walled garden.
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Calibre can sync to ibooks via itunes sync, but thanks I wasn't aware of ibooks DRM not being cracked. I will avoid because of this.
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Originally Posted by queentess
Unfortunately, the only note-taking format I know of that stays with the book file is if you annotate a PDF... which isn't a good ebook format, and I'm not sure you can even annotate on a PDF using an iPad or other ereader.
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Hmm I thought that might be the case, which is a shame. Are there any plans to extend the epub format to include embedded annotations? (this seems like a big oversight - although it depends on what they orginally envisioned the format to be used for).
There are a few iPad apps which can annotate PDF's and these annotations can be synced so they can continue to be annotated on the PC etc... This works well, but as you mentioned PDF isn't really an ebook format.