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"... Maybe the secret is to have an ebook that begins with the letter K..."
I still have the Ultra, use it all the time, although I also have a 626 as backup. But since PocketBook as a company does not seem to worry too much about itself, I repay them in kind.
So, I use Calibre to manage my library: I buy the books, convert them all to EPUB, and load my PBs from Calibre. I do not make the books available to anyone else, since I am not in the piracy business, but if I bought them I am entitled to process them any way I fancy. My PBs do not even remember that such a thing as wifi exists; as long as I can read the books, I avoid updates like the plague.
E-readers beginning with K assume, indeed practically demand, that you connect to them. Amazon, in particular, goes so far as to police what you have in the Kindle.
But even Amazon can on occasion draw a smile even from non-admirers. The other day I found myself reading buyer reviews for one of their more recent e-readers. The bemused customer was complaining that he had embarked on this wonderful promotion, but there was a catch: while he was reading, every once in a while an ad would pop up! The poor guy was almost on the verge of tears!
Not a perfect world, right?
Last edited by vmsda; 01-12-2016 at 09:41 AM.
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