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Originally Posted by kacir
(**) with notable exception of a few manufacturers of e-ink readers based on Android that use mtp:// protocol, so that they can limit what you can do with your own files on your own device connected to your own PC. Arseholes!
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I noticed that mtp stuff. It can be overcome by moving eBooks to the SD card (assuming your eReader has one), pulling the SD card out of the device, and mounting it separately. That would be a pain if you needed/wanted to do it frequently, but shows just how silly the manufacturers thought processes are.
Kind of like when the Keurig coffee maker people came out with their version 2 coffee makers that would reject any third party coffee pod you didn't buy directly from them. Until someone thought, "Why can't I just peel off the top of a recognized pod and scotch tape that to the coffee maker so it sees that instead of an unrecognized pod?" Well, you can do that easily, much to the manufacturers chagrin after they spent so much money/time trying to come up with "coffee DRM".