[jukin]

The reason I compared it to Scribd is this. I used CC for at least the last 5 years and did nearly all my reading via it. I loved what it gave me. When it became a new product, I gave up on it in the end. I tried finding an alternative but could find none that were anywhere close to what CC was and so decided to go in another direction. Hence, instead of buying books I subscribed to Scribd. I only mentioned it as an possible option that people might want to consider if they were ready to give up on CC and other such apps.

I tried the new version to see if the changes made had been worth the wait to me. They aren't. My intent was not to suggest an alternative to CC but rather a new way of accessing books that was a lot cheaper than buying them and then being frustrated in trying to get a client/server model like CC/Calibre that fulfills your needs.

I still don't see why the new CC had to be such a different product to the original. The original was great and had been field tested for years by thousands of users. Why so much development over such a length of time for a product that was pretty much where it needed to be at the start?