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Old 12-22-2018, 02:24 PM   #47
bgalbrecht
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
Why? I only ask as I've bought books from B&N, but have never bought any books where I needed to mess with Adobe, so I don't know how the two compare.

I was annoyed when B&N silently changed their encryption scheme as at the time I bought my first Nook, they touted their 'social' DRM.

Once the new way was cracked, it was okay. But I still thought B&N handled the change poorly and they switched from my primary source to a distant second.

Since e-readers tend to be underpowered devices, how does your Kobo handle having those gigs and gigs of books loaded on it?

I like the idea of loading all my books on a single reader, but haven't done it yet (though the Aura could handle it since it does have an SD card slot).
From what I understand, Adobe & B&N had a deal so that anyone using the Adobe SDK for ereaders should have been able to use the B&N encryption, but I'm only aware of one or two vendors who supported it. You're right, when B&N dropped the "social DRM" with the credit card as key, and their apps all hide the downloaded books, there's no point in anyone else's reader to support it. It's a stupid policy, since the reader isn't where they make there profit, but that's B&N for you. I still buy a few things from B&N because I can get discounted gift cards from Discover through their rewards system, but I have had a couple issues with downloading cookbooks with lots of pictures from them.

I have about 20k ebooks on my Glo HD and Clara HD readers. Sometimes they are sluggish when I try selecting something on the screen, but I think that could be the touch screen mechanism. The Kobos load all the books into a sqlite database and all of the search and display are just SQL queries, so the number of books doesn't seem to cause a performance issue. It does take several minutes for it to process all the books when I sideload some via Calibre though.

It would be nice if Kobo supported syncing of location on sideloaded books too, but I often find that it doesn't really sync Kobo books all that well anyway.
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