Date: October 17th, 2010 07:01 pm (UTC)From:aveleh
I was just talking about this with a friend last night - I want to buy ebooks, but I just can't justify the current prices, given that they wouldn't be permanent fixtures like my physical books. My library uses Overdrive to lend out ebooks, which is awesome, even given that their selection is still pretty sparse, but the current software would require me to use a Windows or Mac Operating System. Which makes me really sad, because while they don't currently have a smooth way to donate ebooks to your library, you can sort of wrangle your way around it, and I like the idea of the book at least going *somewhere* other than to complete electronic oblivion on my reader.
And agreed - DRM makes me sad. I want the publishers to get over this ridiculous thing - ebooks should not be as expensive as they are when crippled with DRM. In the meantime, since I can't make it work how I want, my response is just to be lazy - there's plenty of good stuff to download legally from gutenberg or in fanfic, and anything else I buy from my local bookstores. (aka, I am jealous that you have a system that works for you.)
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Date: October 17th, 2010 07:01 pm (UTC)From:And agreed - DRM makes me sad. I want the publishers to get over this ridiculous thing - ebooks should not be as expensive as they are when crippled with DRM. In the meantime, since I can't make it work how I want, my response is just to be lazy - there's plenty of good stuff to download legally from gutenberg or in fanfic, and anything else I buy from my local bookstores. (aka, I am jealous that you have a system that works for you.)