On 15/09/2020 21.04, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2020-09-15 13:57:32 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 15/09/2020 20.24, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2020-09-15 13:13:28 Vinzenz Vietzke wrote:
Too bad it only works (if at all) with Windows. The last post on that thread points out that in fact it doesn't work (which is my experience) unless one has a kindle or equivalent device.
I highly doubt that hence the -1 rating of that post. Did you even try it yourself to verify? (I can't as I don't buy that stuff.)
I don't have, and won't buy it either.
Dave has that problem. He has the link for a DRM protected ebook, which happens to be gratis, but it is impossible to download in Linux. Yes, it is stupid to DRM protect a gratis book.
And yes, I do purchase ebooks, and many of them are protected with DRM. It is not my choice. If I want a certain tittle, it is either paper or DRM protected epub, take it or leave it. Or pirate it, which I will not. Paper is out of the question. So, DRM epub it is.
For me, paper is the Only way to go. I can take it anywhere, don't have to worry about power, don't have to worry about the server where it lives going down or being unplugged, and since I Really Do own it (not just a license to access it), I can, if I like, give it away, loan it or sell it; it's nobody's business but mine.
Two issues for me: a) I can not fit more paper without buying a bigger house. Besides my own paper, I have that of generations before me. Ah, I also have a piano. Do you want it? You pay the packaging and post, of course, the piano you get for free. Then I'll have more breathing space :-P I also have music scores, in paper. Lots of it. I tried to write some of it using Rosegarden (Linux), but I did not finish, the hand-written score is difficult to interpret. And I can not make MIDI to really work for me. b) I happen to like English books. I mean, I do not like to read the translations. Once, I bought a second hand book via Internet. You know, Internet is a fantastic invention, do you know it? You absolutely must. Well, I bought, instantly, a second hand book at a library on New York. The book was about six dollars. Mailing it was about nine. And it took a month to arrive. But hey, the people that invented Internet also invented books without paper. The virtually mail somehow the book from anywhere in the world and I can get any tittle in my electronic reader in seconds, in any language. Somehow. It is a fantastic invention this. :-D Seriously, ebooks are a fantastic invention for rare books, or simply written in a different language than the local one. I can get almost any tittle, they never get out of print. No mailing costs, no packaging. For the first time in my life, I can get the book I want, in English, without waiting months or even years for it to arrive (I'm not exaggerating, I have waited years to get some paper books). So, well, there is this DRM nuisance. I can rant all year round, it will will not change anything. If I want to get this or another particular book, it has DRM. There are other books without DRM, but the ones I want normally have DRM. Life is a bitch sometimes. So I pay, which is fair, and swallow the pill. It happens that I could not buy the laptop I wanted with Linux, it came with Windows. Thus, I do have a Windows or two on the house. I boot it once a month or less, when I buy a book or a few books. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)