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Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors
I admit I was wrong to lump the Nook in with that sort of behavior. I've now learned they don't do either of those things, and that's good.
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They don't do those, things, but they have other issues.
They don't indicate on their site which books do & don't have DRM--it's a case of "buy it and maybe it's DRM'd; maybe it's not." (Amazon indicates indirectly--if the "device limit" is infinite, there's no DRM.) Also, B&N has a policy of "no returns on ebooks"--even when the book received is *not what was bought*, when they have put the wrong contents in the package. (Threats of lawsuit may have fixed this problem.) And their file-naming system is "LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_TITLE_O.epub"--32 characters, including .epub, which means multiple books in a series may write over each other in the folder. The only way around this is to download the book to a computer, rename the file, and sideload it to the Nook.
Early customer service was lousy. It's probably better now, but B&N's approach is very firmly in the camp of "What are you doing wrong with our bug-free product?"
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I have actually just installed Calibre, and I'm going to give it a test-run on my Android phone. So far I'm really liking it. I've loaded a few books onto it, and done a file conversion from RTF to EPUB (no DRM, so I haven't had to deal with that issue yet).
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Calibre doesn't natively deal with DRM, although since it's open source, some people have written plugins that cope with DRM.
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I'm leaning towards the Kobo Touch pretty strongly at this point. It seems to hit the most points for me.
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Glad you're finding something that you like, or that you think will be okay.