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Originally Posted by treetotree
Neal I to was disapointed by the JBL. It is great hardware and has a wondrful display, but there site did say it would read B&N books. It does not. I have looked on the net to find out how to take the DRM off. What I could find was as clear as mud to me. I down loaded a book from Fictionwise in PDB, and got it into the JBL. It will not open It asks me for an " unlock name ", no where in the minimal manual can I find a reference to an unlock name. I think I will buy a Kindle, when I save enough money again, hopefuly Sept..Until than I can read Smashword books on it. I was trying to save money and feel I got burned. I thought I would be able to get an ereader sooner by buying a less expesive one. My folly will end up costing me more to get one I can use without being an IT expert. By more I mean the cost of a Kindle or Nook ( leaning toward Kindle because to the raves I read about the customer service.) plus the money I spent on the JBL
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For the Fictionwise purchases you can find the simple directions for unlocking
your ebooks by reading what it says on your bookshelf/the page that lists all
your purchases and provides the download links for them.
If you can't find an easy way to remove DRM infections, then you haven't
become proficient with search engines like Google. If that is proving difficult
for you, then you probably should restrict yourself to something like Kindle or
Nook. I should warn you though, the eReader DRM that you are having
trouble using is one of the easiest to use, and one that doesn't restrict you
to certain specific devices that are required to be registered to a site online.
Removing the DRM for the eReader DRM that Fictionwise uses,
(and for a time B&N) as well as a few others, requires that you enter
the same info as is required to unlock the file for reading on your device.
The following is an example of how a publisher may offer ebooks in different
formats and using different DRM scams:
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/d...92&view=ebform
(Random House claims that the .pdb eReader format is their largest seller.)
Luck;
Ken