[Wylug-discuss] advice on ebook reader or similar...

[Christopher McLean]

| -----Original Message-----
| From: wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk [mailto:wylug-discuss-
| Sent: 15 December 2011 09:51


| Thanks. That doesn't sound good:
| 
|   when ... You want to read e-books ... from a library on a Kobo
|   e-reader ... you will need to use Digital Editions to open your books
|   and transfer them to your e-Reader.
| 
| That makes it sound not just like initial registration (which I could
| probably find a Windows computer to do) but that I'd need to run
| Digital
| Editions every time we borrow a library book. That'd be sufficiently
| inconvenient to make it not worth buying the device.
...

This is a function of adobe DE DRM, regardless of reader or OS. This explains things:

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#how-do-i-use-purchased-epub-books-with-app

| Does using Wine require that I find a copy of Windows files for it to
| leach off? I had a play with Wine about 13 years ago, so my memory may
| be faulty or things may have changed, but I think I had to point it at
| the Windows NT installation I then had on another partition.

As far as I am aware, no. But you will have to accept a MS license as part of the install (for fonts from memory)


| My current computer came with Windows, so I have a licence for it, but
| I
| wiped the entire hard disk with installing Linux and I don't think
| there
| were any Windows installation CDs, so I've been presuming that I
| wouldn't be able to run Wine.

As an aside on this one, most/all laptops sold now are like this; they have a recovery partition and nothing else. But, you do have a legit license, so searching for an XP recovery image/ISO might be of help?

Chris