Thread: Where can I find free e-books?
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2007-10-31 , 17:17
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Originally Posted by promethh View Post
I wish eReader would support the internet tablet. Having pouring several hundred into eBooks I can read on my Cingular 8125 and my wife's Treo 650, I'd be in heaven if I could read them on my N800 or N810.

Last I emailed them, they wrote back "we have no intent to support the Nokia Internet Tablet as this time." I'm still trying to find a solution to reading contemporary fiction on my tablet. fbreader doesn't support Adobe activation and reading PDFs downloaded through Adobe eBookMall, does it? If it did, I'd be tempted to switch to a more tablet-friendly eBook vendor.
Trust me: Step away from Ereader NOW!

The reason? That reply they gave you (and me, and many others). Any DRM-based platform that doesn't come with an open source access program is to be avoided at all cost.

There are ways to recuperate your investment in Ereader material, ranging from a DRM-stripping program for Ereader books to simply torrenting the ebooks you already purchased in a more convenient format (Microsoft's lit format, although technically DRM-ed, is ridiculously easy to crack).

And if you need non-DRMed commercial books, these guys
http://www.ebookmall.com/
have lots of unencrypted ones. I'm sure there are other vendors that don't treat their customers as criminals...