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Originally Posted by Jellby
Why not just sell a Kindle with the book(s) preloaded?  |
Must be sarscasm. Good one!
Side Note: Within the past month, I was lost in the Wikipedia Wormhole looking up some obscure manga, and ran across just that. A limited edition of "signed devices" with the ebooks preloaded. Now... if only I could find that article again.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
Well, that's an idea. An eInk Kindle is pretty cheap, really and Amazon would probably sell you some at a discount....
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Preloaded devices have been tried and failed many times over the years. (Music, Movies, and Books too.) The Digital Reader has written about them every time they've start (then fail).
People want the book... not purchasing the book + a (rapidly obsolete and clunky) device with the book.
Techmoan does a lot of retro-tech videos, and he dredges up obsolete devices like this all the time:
e-books in the 1990s - Sony's Data Discman
Usually preloaded devices/formats languish in very niche circles (like Kid's toys), and then rot away on the vine, never to be heard from again.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
For me the "EPUB accidentally being opened in Edge's EPUB Reader" problem was 'fixed' when MS removed it from my desktop in a 1903 update months ago, and it's definitely gone in new 1909 installs.
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KB4522355 (October 24, 2019) officially removed it, but there are still earlier versions of Windows 10 + Long Term Support.
April/July 2019 was when Microsoft closed down their (latest) book store:
"Microsoft is Closing Its eBookstore (Again)" at The Digital Reader
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
but why did they ditch what was a more than adequate ePub viewer. It had all the features I want and none of those I don't want - and it was PDQ.
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It was pretty okay. It had some functionality no others had, like highlighting certain parts of speech.
And it was helpful having a reader in the browser, ever since Readium was effectively killed off in 2017/18 (although it's been recently reborn as
Throium Reader).
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Maybe they couldn't get it working satisfactorily in the Blink browser engine. I'm seriously thinking of downgrading my low-end Surface Go to 1809 to get it back.
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That's exactly what it was... too much work to try to port it over to "Edgeium".
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Anyway, conversation is really drifting from the original topic.
Stick with EPUB/MOBI/PDF + don't try to completely reinvent the wheel + don't do anything stupid. lol.