That's what I think about the new Slashdot Beta. It's awful. "There's simply nothing I like about [Slashdot Beta]. [It] need[s] to disappear, not get passed on to the next unfortunate recipient." In all the important ways it is unusable. It won't even load comments for me! It just says something silly like nah ah. WTF? So much for professionalism.

Oh, and I have JavaScript enabled for slashdot.org and fsdn.com so that shouldn't be a problem. (Unless they want me to whitelist some random other domains. Well, fuck that. I'd rather just leave.)

And without comments, /. is nothing. The comments are the only reason to bother coming here.

Go to Kobo <http://kobobooks.com>. Search for the title you want to buy. See that it says "Adobe DRM EPUB" or "EPUB (DRM-Free)". Don't pick any title with DRM. Pick the other titles. (For an example of an author with both DRMed and non-DRMed files, see Charles Stross.)

And don't feel bad. It too me a while as well.

Also, I remember reading that Tor USA titles everywhere should be DRM-free. If you get one that isn't, you can email them and they'll send you a copy that is DRM-free (perhaps).

Adobe Digital Editions and Adobe DRM is used by virtually all publishers (that actually use DRM) and device makers except Amazon. I.e. it is everywhere (sort of like how ePub is used by virtually everyone except Amazon). But, you don't have to use it. No device that I know of requires that an ePub file has DRM.

Two publishers in the SF/F field that don't use any DRM at all are Tor and Baen Books. Baen Books is excellent for other reasons, including their Free Library (you can download and read the first book in most of their series'). Tor is just part of one of the Big Six, and so otherwise has nothing to distinguish them from any other publisher.