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Originally Posted by delphin
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.
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I am not writing about shopping on Sony stores. But there are many other stores where one can buy Adobe DRM epubs.
In one of them I bought a DRMed epub using GNU/Linux computer without any "proper" software and I was able to download that epub and transfer that book without any problems. Maybe for other shops there are other and more restricted policies, I haven't tried all world's stores. But at least for 1 in this world it worked.
Just to be extra clear: I did activate my reader using a Windows machine once and only once.