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Cam should check out Calibre, an excellent open source, cross platform ebook management app. Works great with my Sony Reader.
http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/
I agree with NAte. Calibre is awesome, I use it here as well. I never even installed Sony's crappy software... Go open source!
Similar problems with audible.com--where they don't even sell you a device, just make it nigh impossible to listen to their DRM-laden audiobooks on your device--drove me to seek out great podcasts, which was how I discovered Cory's reading of "The Hacker Crackdown".
DRM is lame. I circumvent it wherever I reasonably or fairly-legally can.
Thanks guys, I'll check out Calibre. Looks like an attractive and capable piece of software. Plus, it'll work on my mac!
It's the tragedy of DRM - the ebook device itself is gorgeous, and i genuinely wanted to buy some books to read on it.
Anne, if you enjoyed The Hacker Crackdown I'd recommend picking up an issue of 2600 magazine. Even if you don't intend to actually carry out any (eg) "DNS Spoofing on a LAN", just holding it in your hands carries incredible cool factor :-)
Oh the irony! Someone at EA complaining about DRM...
Hey John,
I think you'll find that it's bitterly ironic :-)
Sadly it's actually not ironic at all because as a TD I don't have anything to do with the decision to use DRM or not.
Which is a pity, imagine if my role at EA was VP of Digital Copyright Enforcement or something. That would have been awesomely ironic.
Cheers,
Cam
Cam said that Little Brother is "nominally for kids" and while this may be so,I, as a 60-year-old British reader rather in tune with Marcus's mom,think its appeal is far wider. As long as you are intelligent and understand computer stuff then you will enjoy this great unputdownable thriller. I bought it in Barnes and Noble in NYC (branch closing soon probably because of Amazon) today for 18 dollars. So far I'm a quarter of the way through and I have understood every word. I even know about XBox. I had not heard of Cory D, and I bought it off the shelf on the basis of the blurb, while my eye was caught by his unusual surname that he shares with one of my favourite writers - E.L.D. - any relation? Anyway, a great read, so far. I will look ouy for more, but meanwhile I do recommend the sheer pleasure of spending time in actual bookshops. At home, in London, my neighbourhood independent bookshop owner knows me and my eclectic tastes (I buy average 3 books a week and own literally thousands), discusses and recommends, and looks out for forthcoming titles from my favourites (I know, I know: Amazon will do all that automatically). It is so easy to dismiss people like me as old-fashioned, but I am happy to prefer communicating with a human being (even like now) for some, not all, things to dealing with automata.
Good fortune to you,
Andrew Leigh