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.
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.