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DRM is the problem here, not eBooks. eBooks themselves have a lot of potential, especially when you consider they don't ware down or degrade, they take no physi
by RexRollman 15y ago
DRM is the problem here, not eBooks. eBooks themselves have a lot of potential, especially when you consider they don't ware down or degrade, they take no physical space, and that you have the option of changing things such as font size.
And speaking as someone who has owned some of his books for decades, I worry about the long term implications of owning a collection of books encumbered with DRM.
- scraplab 15y agoIt's more than DRM though - there are no open ways of exporting annotations or bookmarks, on any of the major e-reading platforms. The Open Bookmarks project is an attempt to kick start this conversation, before it gets left behind. http://www.openbookmarks.org/ http://www.openbookmarks.org/