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Old 02-07-2014, 06:54 PM   #106
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Yes, true but those books are available elsewhere. I listed the ebook megastores for one-stop shopping.
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Old 02-07-2014, 06:56 PM   #107
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Too little too late is exactly what it was for me. I bought only maybe three books during the price fixing so that hurt Sony because I might have bought from them then. But I was so used to buying elsewhere that it probably didn't occur to me to check Sony.
It was the opposite for me - at least in the beginning. I bought very little from Sony. When Agency price-fixing was announced, my local Target also happened to put Sony Giftcards on sale (I think it was $25 cards for $15). I bought an embarrassing amount of cards! So I was able to continue to buy books "at a discount" because I got my discount on the gift cards. Once I used them all up, though, that was probably the last time I bought a book at Sony.
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Old 02-07-2014, 07:09 PM   #108
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It was the opposite for me - at least in the beginning. I bought very little from Sony. When Agency price-fixing was announced, my local Target also happened to put Sony Giftcards on sale (I think it was $25 cards for $15). I bought an embarrassing amount of cards! So I was able to continue to buy books "at a discount" because I got my discount on the gift cards. Once I used them all up, though, that was probably the last time I bought a book at Sony.
If I had cheap giftcards I probably would have used them too. I'll have to keep that in mind for other things. Does Amazon or Kobo ever have giftcards on sale?
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I really don't get the reluctance of people not wanting to download their books to their pcs/laptops or whatever. Once it is there, you don't have to worry about a store closing, or whether or not there will be a smooth transition to another store because you have the books you paid for in your pocession.
Some people don't have a desktop/laptop or just don't want to bother, especially with library books.

I sideload my library books as I am used to that, and delete them when I am done reading, but I probably should just download them to the reader as I would not have to remember to delete.

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The Kobo Aura HD is a bigger screen size.
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Old 02-07-2014, 08:56 PM   #111
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Old 02-07-2014, 09:09 PM   #112
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I have a question for those who have had trouble downloading kobobooks--is there a thread on that topic? I have a friend who has a kobo reader and bought 4 books but two wouldn't download.
Yes, there is indeed a thread about this.

Short form: As near as I can tell, the no-download-button books are in EPUB 3.0 format, there's no reason Kobo couldn't give a download button for them, but at present the only way to get at them is with a Kobo app or device.
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Old 02-07-2014, 09:18 PM   #113
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In this person's opinion, even with the death of the 3G signal, the Sony PRS-950 is still a better e-reader than any of the new e-readers with their postage stamp screens, their limited ability to perform single hand reading and any eye-straining light that one can never turn off.
Small point: the Kobo light (Aura, Aura HD, Glo) is easily turned on and off. It's a hardware button. As for screen size, all the readers I've owned have had a 6" screen, which is comparable to the average mass-market paperback. My old Palm T2, now that was a postage-stamp screen...
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Or Tor, also DRM-free! Or any of a zillionty small presses that sell direct.
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Or Tor, also DRM-free! Or any of a zillionty small presses that sell direct.
The reason I didn't mention Tor is that, AFAIK, they don't sell directly to customers - and the subject was specifically stores.
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I have downloaded all my Sony ebooks to the Sony desktop and the 505. There doesn't seem to be any way to transfer them to a thumb drive. I can download them to the tablet and transfer that way.
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I have downloaded all my Sony ebooks to the Sony desktop and the 505. There doesn't seem to be any way to transfer them to a thumb drive. I can download them to the tablet and transfer that way.
If you download with Adobe Digital Editions, you can copy the ebooks straight from ADE's download folder to any other folder. Doing so neither breaks, removes, nor adds DRM, but I would assume that DRM'd books would not be readable on another device.* However, as a pure plan to back up books for use on the same computer, that should work just fine. I do so myself.

* I have removed and reinstalled ADE on the same computer, as well as de/re-authorizing the same ID on that machine, and the protected books still worked just fine - but I haven't tried using those protected books on a different computer registered to the same ID, so I prefer to err on the side of paranoia.
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Thank you for mentioning that. It never occurred to me to download ADE.
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I haven't really paid attention to the eReader market since I got my950, since I haven't really needed to. It is my primary eReader, by far, and since none of the books I read on it comes from the Sony store, I'm not worried. My 950 will be my loyal friend until it dies peacefully in its sleep after living a long and happy life.

The way I see it, this gives me an excuse to put the Kobo app back on my phone. I abandoned it a couple of years ago for sucking, but now I have a reason to give it a second chance.
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Thank you for mentioning that. It never occurred to me to download ADE.
Make sure you download version 2.01 and not 3.0. There is going to be a new drm soon that older ereaders can't use. 2.01 is on the same download page as 3.0.
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