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I've pretty much given up on having any semblance of anonymity (too much jumping through hoops and technical stuff), now just a little bit of privacy will do. So, I am wondering, can one register rather sloppily with Adobe Digital Editions - say forgetting that your surname isn't 'Wong' and that you don't live in Salt Lake City? Or is the identity info one used to purchase a DRM book somehow matched to registering the software, so once you are in, you can't escape this 1984 nightmare?
I am appalled at all the problems I read here about using a Sony reader. If it wasn't for the super small size I would take mine back. While I understand the legitimate need to prevent copyright infringement, all these restrictions are having a significant dampening of my joi de'vivre on ebook reading. Imagine, you buy a book and you are told 'no, you can't read it on the john, you can only read it in the dining room (unless you tell us about it first),' 'no, you can't lend the book to a friend', 'Yes, you've paid for it but you can't sell it in a garage sale' etc. And worst of all (if this is truly the case, I don't know)... 'We want to know the identity of whoever is reading our books.'
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