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Originally Posted by stonetools
well, it may sound like nonsense, but it does have the virtue of truth. In the future, the average user is mostly going to have a device that can read all formats-a PSP, a tablet or a smart-phone. Indeed, one of the reasons to avoid dedicated ereaders will be precisely to avoid this issue.
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Having been buggered often by the evil DRM in the past, I've finally hit on a completely legal solution.
You don’t have to worry about DRM if you stay away from proprietary hardware. My reader can read any of the currently available DRM and ebook file formats, be they Kindle, Sony, B&N, or what have you, (except maybe whatever Apple uses) and without stripping the DRM. I am still at a loss to read some of my old .lit files, but that’s mostly because I forgot the credentials.
What is this marvelous reader? I’m glad I asked; it’s an Android tablet, with Kindle, Nook, Sony, and Aldiko ereaders (all free on the Android Market) installed. Since I’ve gotten my Galaxy Tab, DRM has become a non issue.
I’ll grant that it doesn’t have the advantages of e-ink (there are only two that I can think of), but neither does it have any of the disadvantages.