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Sardonic · 03-09-2013, 08:08 PM

...for what it's worth...

I finally purchased an eBook from Amazon. I was surfing around and stumbled upon a deal Amazon had on "Impulse" by Steven Gould. Sounded fairly interesting and at $1.99 I'll take a gamble.

I quickly go to amazon.com, search for "Impulse", click and there I am. And to my pleasant surprise I see a note at the bottom stating [...at the request of the publisher this book is being sold DRM-Free...].

Well, that solves one problem/step in getting Amazon's proprietary format converted to ePub and onto my Nook HD.

So, with the 'famous' one-click' I make my purchase, scroll-down-and-around click on my digital products, find my purchase, go to the drop-down, click on download, then...wait...there's something missing...what could it be? Oh, there's no way to download my Famous-One-Click-eBook from Amazon to my desktop. What do I do?

Several more clicks around the Internet and back to Amazon to download Amazon's bloatware to my PC then 'whisper-sync' my purchase and click the book cover to download, then go to explorer and navigate to My Documents/yada...yada...yada... then I can finally drag the eBook over to Calibre.

I'm now tired and Amazon's eBook/digital content system is a joke. I deleted Amazon's bloatware and I won't be purchasing any more digital content from Amazon. All I hear about is Amazon this and Amazon that...Kindle this and Kindle that. Bunk. Give me two clicks and a very simple "DOWNLOAD" button - that's what I want. And that is what B&N delivers. Amazon doesn't deliver what I want (and Amazon doesn't deliver what I want in a proprietary format I do not want).

Should B&N go south, and it really would be a shame - the Nook HD/HD+ is better hardware than both the Kindle Tired and Google's Lexus - it'll be because B&N has no 'big' eco-system. I will go over to Google for my hardware if I must.

03-09-2013, 08:08 PM	#23
Sardonic Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Jacksonville, FL Device: Nook HD	...for what it's worth... I finally purchased an eBook from Amazon. I was surfing around and stumbled upon a deal Amazon had on "Impulse" by Steven Gould. Sounded fairly interesting and at $1.99 I'll take a gamble. I quickly go to amazon.com, search for "Impulse", click and there I am. And to my pleasant surprise I see a note at the bottom stating [...at the request of the publisher this book is being sold DRM-Free...]. Well, that solves one problem/step in getting Amazon's proprietary format converted to ePub and onto my Nook HD. So, with the 'famous' one-click' I make my purchase, scroll-down-and-around click on my digital products, find my purchase, go to the drop-down, click on download, then...wait...there's something missing...what could it be? Oh, there's no way to download my Famous-One-Click-eBook from Amazon to my desktop. What do I do? Several more clicks around the Internet and back to Amazon to download Amazon's bloatware to my PC then 'whisper-sync' my purchase and click the book cover to download, then go to explorer and navigate to My Documents/yada...yada...yada... then I can finally drag the eBook over to Calibre. I'm now tired and Amazon's eBook/digital content system is a joke. I deleted Amazon's bloatware and I won't be purchasing any more digital content from Amazon. All I hear about is Amazon this and Amazon that...Kindle this and Kindle that. Bunk. Give me two clicks and a very simple "DOWNLOAD" button - that's what I want. And that is what B&N delivers. Amazon doesn't deliver what I want (and Amazon doesn't deliver what I want in a proprietary format I do not want). Should B&N go south, and it really would be a shame - the Nook HD/HD+ is better hardware than both the Kindle Tired and Google's Lexus - it'll be because B&N has no 'big' eco-system. I will go over to Google for my hardware if I must.