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Originally Posted by nairbv
I expect that out of an ebook reader. I want hundreds if not thousands of books with me at all times.
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It's perfectly feasible to have a few hundred books on the CyBook. It gets a little slow to page through the library screens to find them, but that's the only downside. There's no slowdown in actual "reading" whatsoever.
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Either way though, it looks like they bill on order, and then send months later. That just doesn't even seem... even legal to me. It increases their cashflow and allows them to operate essentially in debt. That's essentially a loan/investment from the customers if they just take your money and deliver way in the future... and if they need that kind of loan from the customer I don't trust them. Who knows, maybe it's just a bad translation on their web site and that's not really how it works. it sounds shady though.
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That is how it operates, and it's perfectly legal. As long as they tell you about it in advance (which they do), there's no problem. "Months later" is an exaggeration. "A few weeks" is more realistic.
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I said it. what do booksonboard, ereader, or gen3 have to do with amazon? Amazon owns a good multi-device DRM system (mobipocket), but decided to introduce a new incompatible DRM system... along with a new device (the kindle) that none of their existing customers would be able to use with their old purchased books. In my mind, that amounts to shitting on customers. they could have at least included mobipocket support in the kindle.
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With respect, you are a little misinformed about that.
The Kindle does use MobiPocket book format. Any MobiPocket book without DRM can be simply copied to the Kindle and read. Any MobiPocket book
with DRM can be trivially processed by a freely available Python tool which allows it to run on the Kindle.