Mobipocket update
Time for another Mobipocket update since I’m happily reading ebooks on my BlackBerry again. Remember I’ve had problems with Mobipocket since their DRM server went down a few weeks ago. The end result of that down time was my Blackberry wouldn’t run the Mobipocket reader so I uninstalled it and then reinstalled it to get it going again. Doing that resulted in the new Blackberry install not being in my Device List on the Mobipocket server so I needed to delete one and add the Blackberry, a feature of the DRM.
That left me with a notice from Mobipocket that I would need them to reset my device list so I could delete the old install and add the new install. That would take them up to a week to do, something I groused about here. Well I am happily reading my ebooks on the Blackberry once again as last night I received notice from Mobipocket that my device list was reset and I could get my new install added. I did that and since I don’t want to read books on the other 3 devices on the list I tried to delete the others so my device list wouldn’t be full. No dice on that as I could only delete one device at a time which means to do that I’ll have to request the list be reset again. It took 8 days last time for Mobipocket to do that so I’ll probably not do that. Maybe I’ll just switch back to eReader.
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I’ve always been really fond of eReader’s DRM scheme. I’m not likely to share my credit card number with anyone to unlock a book, however I can read it on any device that they have software for. Server based DRM schemes are just too dependent on the company.
I use the mobipocket creator to roll my own non drm ebooks. It works great. 99% of all the books I read are on the bb8800. My wife uses the new iphone book reader for her iphone and its works great too.