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by Symmetry 4292 days ago
It's actually a pretty good reader even if you don't load Amazon books onto it. Now, 2/3 of the books are actually ones I buy through Amazon, but Calibre is happy to load any other non-DRMed ebook I should happen to have onto it and that's pretty important when I get something I want to read from drivethroughrpg or the Hugo packet or whatever.
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gcb0 4288 days ago
"non-DRMed ebook" you mean the 4 or 5 that exists and is not RPG or fanfic?

you have to give that this is not a very usual demographic. for example, try to find one academic paper/journal that you can read comfortably.

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dragonwriter 4288 days ago
> "non-DRMed ebook" you mean the 4 or 5 that exists and is not RPG or fanfic?

The Pragmatic Programmer's ebooks, from their site, are all non-DRM, on the technical side (I think a number of other big technical publishers do non-DRM on direct-from-publisher ebooks).

(On the fiction side, I know Baen has included CDs of DRM-free ebooks -- mostly the all-but-most-recent books in major series -- with hardbacks, and also allowed them to distributed on the web.)

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