Is registration necessary?

[JBird]

Hi all!

I just bought a Pocketbook 360 Plus. So far, it seems pretty nice.
However, I don't have a favorites icon on the main page; instead I have a registration icon. Is it necessary to register my device? I like the Pocketbook so far, but forced (more or less) registration is enough for me to not recommend Pocketbook.

[HarryT]

Why would you not want to register it?

[troll05]

AFAIK registration is necessary for FW update via WLAN and shopping on Bookland (although it's pretty useless), but I'd register anyway just to avoid these annoying prompts

[paola]

Originally Posted by JBird

Hi all!

I just bought a Pocketbook 360 Plus. So far, it seems pretty nice.
However, I don't have a favorites icon on the main page; instead I have a registration icon. Is it necessary to register my device? I like the Pocketbook so far, but forced (more or less) registration is enough for me to not recommend Pocketbook.

same with the Pro models, and we were all pretty annoyed, on a matter of principle - having said that, unlike Amazon I do not think they keep tabs on what is on your machine, etc. You will be able to access Bookland, which as troll05 is pretty useless at the moment.

[JBird]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Why would you not want to register it?

I shouldn't have to, but apparently unless I do I won't have a "Favorites" menu item. As paola points out, it's a matter of principle. I just bought it --- it shouldn't start off less than fully functional. This is an unfortunate thing for Pocketbook to do and it gives me a less than favorable impression of the company.

It looks like I'll be returning it.

[J.C.]

Myself I compromised and registered, still i won't be using the shop without some major changes.
Treating paying customers of your products as if they downloaded a piece of shareware is not acceptable.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by J.C.

Myself I compromised and registered, still i won't be using the shop without some major changes.
Treating paying customers of your products as if they downloaded a piece of shareware is not acceptable.

There are many products that require registration prior to use. Pocketbook are doing nothing "wrong" here. If you don't like it, buy something else.

[marty63]

No, proper software has 3 ,possibilities:
Register now
Register later
Never register

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by marty63

No, proper software has 3 ,possibilities:
Register now
Register later
Never register

Ah, OK. Obviously then, for example, the Amazon Kindle doesn't have "proper software" either .

[troll05]

But you don't have to register your Kindle, Amazon kindly does this for you with a built in backdoor-access to your purchases

[LoneTech]

I actually registered in order to look for offers at the webshop.. because a message told me registering would give me some bonus, which I figured would be something along the line of a joinup credit. Turns out there was no such thing, and indeed, next to nothing in the webshop at all. I went digging quite a lot but the "universal content store" consistently tells me I'm not even allowed to buy things, supposedly because of region locking. It's just a pile of insults.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by troll05

But you don't have to register your Kindle, Amazon kindly does this for you with a built in backdoor-access to your purchases

If you buy the Kindle in a store, rather than direct from Amazon, it (obviously) comes unregistered. Much of the functionality is disabled to encourage you to register.

[Billi]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Ah, OK. Obviously then, for example, the Amazon Kindle doesn't have "proper software" either .

Maybe. But with the big shop behind it Amazon can allow itself not to have "proper software" whereas Pocketbook has nothing to offer in return for the registration.



Sometimes, when the Pocketbook is connected to my computer anyway, I set back "regcount=" in global.cfg to 1. Of course, this doesn't take less time than simply click away the registration screen but it gives me the feeling of doing something actively against this repeated annoying request.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by HarryT

If you buy the Kindle in a store, rather than direct from Amazon, it (obviously) comes unregistered. Much of the functionality is disabled to encourage you to register.

If I had bought my kindle in a store instead of from Amazon, which functionality would have been disabled?

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by Billi

Maybe. But with the big shop behind it Amazon can allow itself not to have "proper software" whereas Pocketbook has nothing to offer in return for the registration.

Sometimes, when the Pocketbook is connected to my computer anyway, I set back "regcount=" in global.cfg to 1. Of course, this doesn't take less time than simply click away the registration screen but it gives me the feeling of doing something actively against this repeated annoying request.

Are you saying that setting regcount=1 in global.cfg disables the registration screen only one time? Then the system somehow determines that there has been no registration and
resets regcount?

I have a PB 360, which has no registration screen that I have ever seen, but I am considering getting a PB 360+ to be able to transfer files over wifi.