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Originally Posted by Gee Mont
I tried the free Mobipocket a few months ago and was also disappointed. MS Reader makes for easier and better reading, IMHO, than other readers, and that is what really counts. The activations are a pain, true, but I've never had any real trouble. Anti-DCMA or anti-DRM (or even anti-Microsoft) isn't my weltanschauung. Sorry if that upsets some people, but I'm going to say what I think. It will take more then a few activations to get me to drop MS Reader for a different program.
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I love the Mobipocket reader, but the MP DRM is as bad as Microsoft. I had to hard reset my PPC a while ago (I installed that MS Theme Switcher program and it buggered everything up) and could access my one and only Mobipocket secure book.
I usually purchase books in .lit format and convert them to unsecured MP. However I bought the Oxford Dictionary from MP so it's secure.
Anyway, the DRM for MP is tied to the device by a serial number. Hard resetting changes the number. The only cure seems to be to go to the MP site, edit the number in your profile and downloading the book again. I had to do this a couple of times, before I figured out what what was causing me to have to hard reset, the last time MP told me I had reached my limit. WTF? :?
I had to email them to get my limit increased. They responded really quickly, but what a pain in the arse! What if all my books had been in secure MP format? Would I have had to redownload the whole lot of them??
I just hope that Convert Lit doesn't go away because all this DRM stuff is too much for me. If I was starting out I'd go with Palm Reader, but I have a ton of books already.......
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Originally Posted by Kevin C. Tofel
To save you the trouble of buying a book to try the DRM: unlike MS Reader where you have to active the book through their site \ servers with a Passport account, the DRM is handled strictly at the device level. You don't need to connect to a website or even have your device in a cradle. You simply enter your name and your credit card number used to purchase the book into the reader application. Very simple and not reliant upon any additional interfaces.....KCT
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That seems to be so much better than any of the others, very sensible.