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Originally Posted by detayls
I don't understand all this rooting and DRM stripping. Here's my take:
- Ignore ALL the foofuraw about rooting - it's an eBook reader. Get over it.
- Ignore ALL the foofuraw about DRM removal - that's just silly paranoia
- Buy from one place - I chose Amazon
- Enjoy the synching - why I chose Amazon - I have iPhone and Kindle
- Wait for the price to be right with sales - pay $1.99 or less
- Borrow as much as you can from your local library - you will be amazed
- Find the correct reader for comfortable reading - Paperwhite
- Use a bolder font and don't be ashamed of older eyes - caecilia is the only choice
- Read more shop less
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Then here is my response to that, point for point.
- Rooting can sometimes open the door to very useful functions that can, at least for some people, greatly enhance the reading experience. It's not your decision to deny them this. Of course, I'd like to see a reader that does not need to be rooted to customize, but companies want to lock stuff down to lock you into their walled garden. Which brings us to the next point....
- Removing DRM is paranoid? Oh, so you mean that games and music that became unplayable because the DRM-servers went off-line because of a company going bust are all just made up? People did NOT loose access to those games and music? And BooksOnBoard is not belly up? If Adobe decides to pull their de-encryption key from their ADE server, for whatever reason (maybe because a judge orders them to, because they didn't pay publishers or something), all your books bought with them become useless and unreadable.
- Happy shopping. I often buy cheaper from other places, and I'm not locked into one reader as you are (because of your previous point).
- Many people have only one device to read on; as do I. And if I had multiple, I'd not read the same book on multiple devices. Syncing is of no use to me. This syncing feature, combined with not removing DRM, gives Amazon the power to remove books from your device remotely. They have done it before. If necessary, they'll do it again. They are a huge company. Therefore I don't trust them. Or any other big company for that matter. I'll manage my own media, seperate from their systems. (And that, surprisingly, requires DRM-removal.)
- I often do.
- I can't. In the Netherlands, the books I want to read are not in the library and they don't offer ebooks, except on a very, very limited scale. Gutenberg has more stuff in Dutch ebook-format than the Dutch libraries themselves. They actually point to Gutenberg for everything that's out of copyright.
- That's a matter of opinion. If something else comes along that I deem to be better / is better, I'll buy that reader. I can, and you cannot. All because I removed DRM, and you didn't.
- You have no idea. There are fonts around that are MUCH better than Caecilia, in readability, lines per page, characters per line, and all at the same time at that. I created one myself.
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