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Old 04-20-2009, 03:42 AM   #126
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Originally Posted by Kris777 View Post
It will be interesting to hear the opinion of average person who already purchased jetBook in BB&B store on this forum .
OK average person: my sister-in-law ordered it for her mother and herself. Surprise! "Now, we all have readers and can share books!"she tells me.

They both like bestsellers and Harlequin Romances. My sister-in-law loved my reader but, we never really talked about formats.
She called tonight about which to download as Harlequin had 3 different ones for the book and was Mobipocket the same as MOBI?

I checked the site and they had:Adobe PDF eBook (which I found out really means ADE), Microsoft eBook, and Mobipocket eBook.

I told her "none" as they had DRM. It took me almost an hour to try to explain: no you can't buy the "kindle" book just because you have a reader, DRM means protected, ADE, PDF, etc.... you get the idea. I only have a basic knowledge myself with the Sony 505 and had to explain that yes I can get some books she can't and off again because she still didn't get it. Then, she asked about library books.. as my mom had said I could get library books too.

I was exhausted trying to explain but, I did advise her to forget them and just get Sony 505's. That way it still meets their requirements: size, bestsellers, and Harlequin Romances (plus at least I can get them started).

So were these "average people" happy? Not even close.
Was I happy? Nope. I don't mind explaining how to use something but, trying to explain the why not is exhausting.

Last edited by dreams; 04-20-2009 at 03:44 AM. Reason: spelling
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