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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I understand there's always going to preferences. But I honestly think it's time that people start owning up to the fact that they're at least partly responsible for their own "imprisonment." By falling too much in love with certain formats, branding, screen technologies, DRM status, reading apps, fonts, kerning, styles, evil empires, buttons, haptics, collections, blah de blah de blah. It'd be like someone only being able to read a hardcover with off-white, deckle-edged, recycled paper on the second and fourth Thursdays of a month with an "R" in it before ebooks came along.
I just want buy books and read them. A tablet and a handful of apps lets mash all those garden walls flat and do just that. I've been done with making it hard on myself for a long time, now. Y'all can carry that torch without me. *shrug*
EDIT: please note that I'm not dismissing the importance many of these choices/features can hold for those with disabilities or special needs.
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I mainly want to keep track of my books without checking six separate places (Google, Kobo, Kindle, Verbum/logos, paper and misc sold without DRM). Being able to directly access books from my catalog for all but two sources and read them on my favorite reading app happens to be a very nice bonus.