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Originally Posted by wallcraft
One of the most serious downsides to DRM is that it forces you to use the DRM-provider's ebook reader. As a rule, these are OK but if they are missing a function you want you are stuck.
The "solution" is to strip the DRM. This is thought by some to be illegal in the US and several other places, but it probably is legal in the US for personal use and this certainly harms no one (you have bought the ebook after all).
For MOBI/PRC use mobidedrm.py. The resulting DRM-free MOBI typically works using FBReader unless it has MOBI-specific compression (which is rare). Calibre will format shift any DRM-free ebook to ePub which can be read using FBReader.
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The problem on diesel is you can't even download the .prc without a device PIN. Maybe I could do something with an eReader (.pdb) file, I don't know. Either way, it's not a purchase but a gamble whether I will end up with something I can read comfortably on my hardware. Even if I knew I could peel off the straitjacket with good results, I hate to support a business model that actively obstructs the development of this medium.
Hopefully someone soon will sell the publishers on making their wares accessible to the growing netbook market, particularly if the 3Qi displays pan out. I might even bite the bullet and use their half dozen different crap-tastic proprietary viewers if I knew I would get a book-quality product that I could optimize for my display.