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mdbenoit · 02-27-2009, 07:16 AM

Thanks for everyone who replied! Unfortunately, it makes me more hesitant than ever to buy a reader. For me, (or my husband, in this case, because it's a birthday present) a reader will be a huge outlay of money. As I said in a previous post, I have hundreds of ebooks in the eReader DRM format (.pdb) and switching to any of these readers, as far as I can tell (and including the BeBook) means that I'll lose all these books.

Frankly, and as much as I love ebooks, this is one of the reasons more people don't gravitate towards electronic books. With print, all you have to do is take it off the shelf. Any shelf.

You can tell I'm a little frustrated.

02-27-2009, 07:16 AM	#16
mdbenoit Enthusiast Posts: 39 Karma: 36 Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Ottawa, Canada Device: Palm Zire 71	Thanks for everyone who replied! Unfortunately, it makes me more hesitant than ever to buy a reader. For me, (or my husband, in this case, because it's a birthday present) a reader will be a huge outlay of money. As I said in a previous post, I have hundreds of ebooks in the eReader DRM format (.pdb) and switching to any of these readers, as far as I can tell (and including the BeBook) means that I'll lose all these books. Frankly, and as much as I love ebooks, this is one of the reasons more people don't gravitate towards electronic books. With print, all you have to do is take it off the shelf. Any shelf. You can tell I'm a little frustrated.