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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
Regarding switching devices: The books sold at kobobooks.com are epubs, nearly always with ADE DRM - that seems to be the most widespread system, and isn't proprietary. Sony uses the same, as well as Overdrive (which provides ebooks to libraries in the US).
I can read books bought at Kobo on my Sony Reader, for instance.
I had a Hanvon 610 for a short while, which did not come with any management software, you just dragged and dropped files. On the other hand, it was quite slow when I tried to look at PDFs with images... I think the instruction manual that came with it took 4 seconds for a page change.
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all DRM is proprietary by definition. Now if you mean ADE is not limited to a given brand of readers that is basically true.
Also do you have links to validated stats that prove ADE is the "...the most widespread system."? I am not looking to discuss if one company's DRM is
better that another as that is the discussion for the playground, rather I would hope you are passing valid details over your personal prejudices against other DRM schemes.
As I recall it is B&N who uses their own form of DRM which is a variation of ADE but not compatible with other ADE based devices? I am not sure about that only pointing out it is all too confusing.