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Old 09-16-2008, 12:59 PM   #8
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I think that's the other way around. With a touch screen, it would have to be "active" all the time, making battery drain worse. The fact that you have to pull the stylus out in order to draw is a good thing, with regards to battery life. When the stylus is put away, it shuts off the wacom layer, saving the battery.
Touch screens are passive, I think, not needing to be powered. They are also more opaque than the Wacom-type screens. The eBookwise 1150 is a good example-- the touch screen doesn't draw power, but impairs the readability of the device without a backlight.

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I don't know about ePub (is there a third party app that will read ePub docs?), but the only way to get DRM PDFs is to negotiate with Adobe for rights to the PDF encryption.
FBreader reads ePub, but not with DRM. As another poster has commented, the sticking point on supporting any other DRM besides Mobipocket may be the Mobipocket license.
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