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Originally Posted by avantman42
To someone who doesn't know otherwise, I suspect it would seem reasonable to expect that if they buy an e-reader, they'll be able to buy books wherever they want. After all, if you buy a music player, you'll be able to play MP3s on it, regardless of where you bought them.
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This, This, a million times, THIS. I bought a Sansa Clip. I stick mp3s from podcasts on it. Done. Out of the box. No need for a special "desktop" either. Just me and my USB cord.
Prior to buying an e-reader I actually thought I
did do my homework. After all, I liberally played around with calibre for several hours per day, and downloaded all kinds of public domain books in various formats. I taught myself in general, to convert my books from other "formats" to epub, which is what I learned the Sony and Kobo (the two I was most looking at) used. I thought I had enough experience under my belt to "do" e-books.
I then learned, with a shock, that even an epub isnt an epub across the board AFTER I bought my reader.
All I can say now is, it's a good thing I happen to prefer most of my titles be public domain. and I now give Smashwords (and the like) a chance because they actually want to sell a book to ME, not to only one type of machine.