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Originally Posted by rcentros
I've gotten ADE to run in Wine (thanks to some advice here at MobileRead) and, apparently, Audible can also be run under Wine. I don't quite understand not being able to run Overdrive in Linux -- don't you just run it in your browser? (But maybe there is an application that I don't know about.) I don't know what WMA is so can't comment on that.
I agree with you about Microsoft and Apple. Don't like either. Not crazy about Google any more either, but still consider them the lesser of the evils.
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I know about Wine, but I don't use Linux. So that would be something else I'd have to setup and then dual boot with Chrome. That would still leave several programs not compatible with Wine, that would still require Windows. Now I'd have to deal with three OSs. Windows is the only OS that runs all of these programs.
Audible and OverDrive both require programs to be downloaded to your computer. WMA is Windows Media Audio. Over 60% of the audiobooks in OverDrive are in WMA format. Even though OverDrive announced that they are dropping this format, it hasn't happened yet and they haven't released a timetable for doing so.
The only plus I see for the Surface tabs is their ability to run all of these book related programs. Something Android and Chrome can't do.