Comment eReaders are not ready yet (Score 1) 569
I'm eager to buy an eBook reader but my minimum requirements for eBooks and eBook readers have not been met...
1) An eBook puchased from any eBook merchant should be readable by any eBook reader.
There, it wasn't a long list of requirements. If I buy a load of eBooks from (say) Amazon for my Kindle and then decide to change my reader to a Sony, then my Amazon books will be unreadable. That is simply unnacceptable. Even if I'm happy with my Kindle hardware and decide to stick with Kindle forever, I am forced to buy my eBooks from Amazon, I can't purchase from anyone else. That is also unnacceptable.
Whilst I'm waiting for eBook merchants and eBook reader manufacturers to sort this out... Does anyone know of a piece of hardware combined with some DRM stripping software that would suffice for now?
1) An eBook puchased from any eBook merchant should be readable by any eBook reader.
There, it wasn't a long list of requirements. If I buy a load of eBooks from (say) Amazon for my Kindle and then decide to change my reader to a Sony, then my Amazon books will be unreadable. That is simply unnacceptable. Even if I'm happy with my Kindle hardware and decide to stick with Kindle forever, I am forced to buy my eBooks from Amazon, I can't purchase from anyone else. That is also unnacceptable.
Whilst I'm waiting for eBook merchants and eBook reader manufacturers to sort this out... Does anyone know of a piece of hardware combined with some DRM stripping software that would suffice for now?
