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Originally Posted by lkmiller
Exactly. I like using other epub readers like Mantano. B&N used to play up their "social DRM" which allowed you to do that. That flexibility was the major reason I always preferred buying from B&N. They were my go-to place for ebooks since 2009. I've owned nearly every type of device they've put out. When their last e-ink reader was a huge disappointment, I gave up and got the Kobo Aura HD and more recently an Onyx Boox T68. Naturally, I started shopping more at Kobo and Google. Until these latest shenanigans, I would have still been able to read my B&N books on the Onyx without Alf's help. Now between removing the download buttons and changing the unlock code, they've lost me completely. They've made my DRM'd books a lot less valuable to me if I can only read them on B&N apps.
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So has someone actually said that they can't read a DRMed B&N ebook on a reader with the username/password method recently? 'Cause I've not seen that mentioned, if so. All I've seen talked about is key-generation and DRM removal failing/succeeding based on account changes. But I'm new to this kind of stuff, so maybe I'm reading wrong.
In all honesty: are there any reports of new DRMed B&N books being unreadable in apps (like Mantano) that claim to support B&N's Adobe passhash implementation?
Either way, since the only book retrieval methods being officially supported are using Nook devices or apps, there's no reason to expect that reading DRMed Nook books with anything other than Nook devices/apps is going to work for very much longer.