Benefits of being locked in to a provider

[shalym]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...deId=200767340

"Amazon doesn't charge fees for delivery of personal documents to your Kindle e-readers over Wi-Fi or that are transferred via USB. "

So implying that 3G is charged

I was charged in the UK. Except that if the document was already in the cloud I was not charged.

So if you have multiple Apps or devices, email to one that uses Wi-Fi, then ask for delivery over 3G on the 3G Kindle.

Yes, exactly. I either email to a wi-fi only device, or send directly to the cloud using the Send to Kindle app.

Shari

[bgalbrecht]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Why? I only ask as I've bought books from B&N, but have never bought any books where I needed to mess with Adobe, so I don't know how the two compare.

I was annoyed when B&N silently changed their encryption scheme as at the time I bought my first Nook, they touted their 'social' DRM.

Once the new way was cracked, it was okay. But I still thought B&N handled the change poorly and they switched from my primary source to a distant second.

Since e-readers tend to be underpowered devices, how does your Kobo handle having those gigs and gigs of books loaded on it?

I like the idea of loading all my books on a single reader, but haven't done it yet (though the Aura could handle it since it does have an SD card slot).

From what I understand, Adobe & B&N had a deal so that anyone using the Adobe SDK for ereaders should have been able to use the B&N encryption, but I'm only aware of one or two vendors who supported it. You're right, when B&N dropped the "social DRM" with the credit card as key, and their apps all hide the downloaded books, there's no point in anyone else's reader to support it. It's a stupid policy, since the reader isn't where they make there profit, but that's B&N for you. I still buy a few things from B&N because I can get discounted gift cards from Discover through their rewards system, but I have had a couple issues with downloading cookbooks with lots of pictures from them.

I have about 20k ebooks on my Glo HD and Clara HD readers. Sometimes they are sluggish when I try selecting something on the screen, but I think that could be the touch screen mechanism. The Kobos load all the books into a sqlite database and all of the search and display are just SQL queries, so the number of books doesn't seem to cause a performance issue. It does take several minutes for it to process all the books when I sideload some via Calibre though.

It would be nice if Kobo supported syncing of location on sideloaded books too, but I often find that it doesn't really sync Kobo books all that well anyway.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

From what I understand, Adobe & B&N had a deal so that anyone using the Adobe SDK for ereaders should have been able to use the B&N encryption, but I'm only aware of one or two vendors who supported it. You're right, when B&N dropped the "social DRM" with the credit card as key, and their apps all hide the downloaded books, there's no point in anyone else's reader to support it. It's a stupid policy, since the reader isn't where they make there profit, but that's B&N for you.

I have figured out where Windows stores books downloaded via the Nook Windows 10 app. I haven't had any trouble importing books into Calibre and stripping DRM.

I did have trouble with a graphic novel I bought there, but I was able to figure it out with help from Alf's blog. I wonder if your image heavy cookbooks are giving you the same issues?

Since getting B&N squared away, I wouldn't mind buying books there, but right now Amazon is just easier.