Date: 2007-12-06 03:49 pm (UTC)
Nothing much. I've long wanted to read Justina Robson's Living Next Door to the God of Love, and the only thing I had was a large-format trade paperback. I don't really care for hauling around TPB, so I figured I'd buy the e-book edition.

The only one I could find, however, was the Microsoft .LIT edition. In order to download (never mind read) this volume, you need (a) a membership with Microsoft Live!, (b) a membership with EBooks.com, (c) a copy of MS Reader, (d) an Active-X control that "securely" lets IE pass the DRM'd file to MS Reader, and (e) A copy of Windows that passes WGA.

Once you've got that, you've got your book-- on one machine. You can't move it. You can't put it on another machine. You can't resell it. Oh, and MS Reader will only let you have two books open at one time.

I won't explain how I exerted my First Sale and Fair Use rights to undo all that bullshit and re-render the godsdamned book into an HTML format suitable to plucker and the Palm. Suffice it to say that I felt like a circus poodle after that many hoops.
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