I love my Reader, but I am _so_ glad Sony is giving up its PoS proprietary eBookstore DRM software. It's slow and buggy and it crashes at least once every time I try to use it. The only nice thing about it is it lets you license up to 6 devices on which to read your books.
Adobe's Digital Editions software is way easier to work with, though right now the Reader doesn't do a very good job of re-sizing or re-flowing text from those PDF files (or ePub files, for that matter). I'm hoping Sony will provide a firmware update to fix this once they go ePub.
Neither option is DRM free, but the move to ePub is a step in the right direction. Truly, the best software for the Sony Reader is the free open source program, Calibre, by programmer Kovid Goyal.
It's kinda fun to watch these boomer types who came of age at the dawn of sex, drugs and rock and roll go full-on foagie and start foaming at the mouth over the new new. One of my young-in-the-sixties relatives even went so far as to tell me how my generation "ruined drugs". You see, back in her day, drugs were just a harmless passtime, but today...
Hey, remember when the Author's Guild got all antsy about Amazon's used books program, and Jeff Bezos was all, "Blah, blah...right of sale...blah, blah...support independent used booksellers...blah, blah...live with it suckas!"? And now Bezos is all, "No sharing, no selling, no lending--We own you kindle-buying bitches!"
Those monopolistic bastards will have to pry my Calibre-loving Sony Reader from my cold dead hands.
I think libraries in communities where a large percentage of patrons play video games should keep collections of games -- not to lure kids into the library or bribe them to read, but because games are a type of media the community is interested in, same as books, newspapers, DVDs, audio books, etc. Community interest, not "redeeming value" should be a driving force behind library collections and purchases.
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I love my Reader, but I am _so_ glad Sony is giving up its PoS proprietary eBookstore DRM software. It's slow and buggy and it crashes at least once every time I try to use it. The only nice thing about it is it lets you license up to 6 devices on which to read your books.
Adobe's Digital Editions software is way easier to work with, though right now the Reader doesn't do a very good job of re-sizing or re-flowing text from those PDF files (or ePub files, for that matter). I'm hoping Sony will provide a firmware update to fix this once they go ePub.
Neither option is DRM free, but the move to ePub is a step in the right direction. Truly, the best software for the Sony Reader is the free open source program, Calibre, by programmer Kovid Goyal.
Re: Re: Re: It is pointless...
"It will also be amusing to see YOU decrying the changes you will see later in your lifetime"
I already am. I find it highly amusing.
Lesson: Old Foagies never change
It's kinda fun to watch these boomer types who came of age at the dawn of sex, drugs and rock and roll go full-on foagie and start foaming at the mouth over the new new. One of my young-in-the-sixties relatives even went so far as to tell me how my generation "ruined drugs". You see, back in her day, drugs were just a harmless passtime, but today...
Shamazon
Hey, remember when the Author's Guild got all antsy about Amazon's used books program, and Jeff Bezos was all, "Blah, blah...right of sale...blah, blah...support independent used booksellers...blah, blah...live with it suckas!"? And now Bezos is all, "No sharing, no selling, no lending--We own you kindle-buying bitches!"
Those monopolistic bastards will have to pry my Calibre-loving Sony Reader from my cold dead hands.
I think libraries in communities where a large percentage of patrons play video games should keep collections of games -- not to lure kids into the library or bribe them to read, but because games are a type of media the community is interested in, same as books, newspapers, DVDs, audio books, etc. Community interest, not "redeeming value" should be a driving force behind library collections and purchases.