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rlynnt · 02-07-2009, 02:14 AM

I'm surprised there's no mention of copyright there. I thought that was the major hangup for this issue more than anything else. Have they solved that when I wasn't looking? I know that there are a great many more works available now than there have ever been, but there are still some best selling authors who refuse to make their work available electronically.

The Holy Grail would be for each of us to be able to have one copy of a file that could be Moved an infinite number of times, and used on an infinite number of devices, but never copied. Ideally, it could be lent to others, as well...as long as there always remained one copy of the file. But is it possible to e-mail someone a copy while retaining the existence on only one copy?

I've been waiting for all of these things to be resolved before buying too many e-books, certainly before buying a device which ONLY reads e-books. I'm glad that the technology has improved for reading them. But I don't want another electronic device. I want FEWER electronic devices. I would be perfectly happy reading on lightweight Tablet PCs, the new superlight netbooks or even phones with decent sized screens like the ATT Tilt. But I lost all of my Adobe books when my last computer crashed because I wasn't able to move them.

So I'm still waiting. But I haven't really checked into the situation lately, so I'll just start subscribing to MobileRead's RSS feed to keep me up to date from now on.

02-07-2009, 02:14 AM	#2
rlynnt Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: none	I'm surprised there's no mention of copyright there. I thought that was the major hangup for this issue more than anything else. Have they solved that when I wasn't looking? I know that there are a great many more works available now than there have ever been, but there are still some best selling authors who refuse to make their work available electronically. The Holy Grail would be for each of us to be able to have one copy of a file that could be Moved an infinite number of times, and used on an infinite number of devices, but never copied. Ideally, it could be lent to others, as well...as long as there always remained one copy of the file. But is it possible to e-mail someone a copy while retaining the existence on only one copy? I've been waiting for all of these things to be resolved before buying too many e-books, certainly before buying a device which ONLY reads e-books. I'm glad that the technology has improved for reading them. But I don't want another electronic device. I want FEWER electronic devices. I would be perfectly happy reading on lightweight Tablet PCs, the new superlight netbooks or even phones with decent sized screens like the ATT Tilt. But I lost all of my Adobe books when my last computer crashed because I wasn't able to move them. So I'm still waiting. But I haven't really checked into the situation lately, so I'll just start subscribing to MobileRead's RSS feed to keep me up to date from now on.