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Originally Posted by Sardonic
...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.
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If you don't want to buy on Amazon, you don't have to.
Amazon's whole store is built around the assumption that you will use a Kindle to read Kindle books -- not so unreasonable, as B&N does the same thing. You may find if you care to try a balanced approach that one-click buy does indeed send your book directly to your desktop -- if you actually have a method of reading it. Or perhaps they have prophecy and thus anticipate 0.1% of their customers really wanting to go through a 4-step process to read all their Kindle books on a nook?
(By the way, I would love for someone to confirm for me whether B&N allows downloads from the browser without either a Nook or Nook app registered.)
As you have a Nook tablet, just download the Amazon app and everything will be far easier for ANY books you may buy from Amazon. Plus, you even get a download button!!!!!
And how does the Kindle 4 PC qualify as bloatware any more than the Nook 4 PC, besides for your obvious bias towards B&N? Bloatware is anything installed on a computer that doesn't serve a useful purpose. Kindle/Nook 4 PCs provide a seamless one-click buy-download-and-read for ebooks, something I hope you will come to recognize is a useful purpose for people actually buying an ebook from the respective sources.
If you would like to continue insulting everything non-B&N-related with bad puns and accusations of malicious intent, I suppose we can't help you. Feel free to rage somewhere in private though.
By the way, since you've earned my ire, you can now listen to my lecture on PROPRIETARY FORMATS. THIS MEANS NOTHING!!
As you so astutely point out, calibre is readily available to convert between mobi and ePub -- the only thing that matters is if they are locked with DRM.