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Originally Posted by mrmls
I think not always special software will be necessary.
Isn't it one time operation - to register your device and then you can drag and drop any DRM books that are binded to this registered Adobe DRM account?
Still, it's a pity that only way to buy books on Sony ebook store is to use its program. But other places where they sell Adobe DRM's epub books they ask to download a file with meta information. You can open it with Adobe's Digital Editions or Sony's Library , but you can also download the file and open it with text editor where location of actual epub is written. For me I have been able to download epub file directly.
So, in brief I register my device only once and never ever use that Sony' s software (unless I want to buy from its store.. )
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Sure the Sony only needs to be registered once, but EVERY MAC or PC used needs to also be REGISTERED TO MATCH or you can't use it to buy books and transfer them to the Sony.
This is true whether you use Sony's software or Adobe's; you STILL HAVE TO REGISTER EACH AND EVER PC YOU WANT TO USE TO PURCHASE AND DOWNLOAD BOOKS, or else they will NOT WORK when transfered to the SONY.
This is a royal PITA if you are traveling and trying to use a friends PC, or one at a library or data kiosk, to purchase and load books.
True, once you have already purchased and downloaded books using a properly registered PC, you could then use ANY PC to move these
already purchased books onto the device via drag and drop or Calibre, so for example you can carry backup copies of your books on a memory stick and use anyone's PC to move them to your reader, but since the Sony will hold hundreds of books, and rarely crashes so that books must be reloaded, this is not going to be useful very often.