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11-11-2010, 02:52 PM | #17 | |||
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As for stripping, I get both formats and liberate anything I find interesting enough to transfer. But it's nice to have a more-or-less working existing app that I can quickly check things upon without having to do so, even using a less-easy-to-work-with format, and also take exportable notes and highlights with. And that works on my old PPC PowerBook as well as my shiny new Intel Mac Mini. Quote:
And personally, I'd rather have the B&N DRM scheme, which is far less intrusive and more user-trusting (none of this only 6-licensed devices including computers, must register them with central server inconvenience) and easier to deal with than ADE (no need to even try and install Digital Editions under Wine for Linux users, for example; any platform which supports Python will do, even the non-Intel ones) from an end-user point of view, despite B&N's own otherwise technically inadequate contributions to the e-book experience. Once you've got a B&N-DRM file from anywhere, you can either read it straightaway on any compatible platform/software, no matter how old or new it is and without having to register your umpteen "devices"†, or you can strip it at your leisure using no more than a simple script for which you don't have to install any third-party reader software from which it must detect and derive special decoding keys and optionally have exactly the right version to go with your liberation tools because the vendor's been changing things in a way that blocks them. Just the name and CC # used to purchase. That's it. I am disappointed by many things about B&N, but not their excellent annotated B&N Classics line, and not the relatively sensible DRM scheme they purchased from the eReader people, and not their cute stuffed mascot bear. The rest of it, they really could stand to work on, but they've got those three things right. * Besides NookStudy, which barely counts because it doesn't support the format officially served to Mac users and only Snow Leopard people can use it, provided they're willing to wait a lo-o-o-ong time for it to load and perform tasks. But it's otherwise a rather nice app and I hope they continue to improve and promote it. † Incidentally, a little-known-and-touted aspect of the Nook reader/apps is that you can put other people's B&N-DRM files on them by just having them enter the name/CC unlock info once for the first file, after which it stores a hash derived from them which will unlock future files from the same source, and thus you can "lend" to your family and friends beyond the 14-day/one-lend-ever limit of the official lending scheme. No need to keep all the household's books on the same account and only use that while reading, especially if you want to keep purchases separate. |
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11-11-2010, 04:10 PM | #18 |
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11-11-2010, 04:23 PM | #19 |
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Sorry. I often forget to use smileys. It's so hard to pick the right one.
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