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Originally Posted by dordale
You do have a good point, but I don't usually read most of my books again, so I guess I'm not too worried about that. Also, I've been reading a lot of drm free books from this site and others, so no worries with those.
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True. My concern is with the folks who accumulate a library of paid for content locked to a device. If they lose or break the device, and the manufacturer is out of the business, they're SOL.
That happened to users of my device. Tapwave was trying to create a device that was a handheld gaming platform and a PDA. To woo game developers, they implemented DRM that would allow developers to release products which were digitally signed, and once installed were looked to the device they were installed on. If they lost or broke the device, they had to get a new signature from Tapwave for the new device, not the developer of the software. Tapwave went belly up. Various folks had software they couldn't run, even though they got a replacement working device, because the signing server no longer existed
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This is a good point as well. And probably why I haven't really considered selling my Clie. I don't see anything out on the market right now that would make a good replacement. Maybe I need to rethink my last statement...I really don't want my Clie to die! Although I do enjoy shopping for all things electronic!
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That's pretty much where I am. I'd like a larger screen, and would accept a larger device as part of it, but I'd need to do the same things I do now, in substantially the same ways.
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Dennis