Disabled folks and DRM and PDFs
- From: Andrew Meit <meitnik@[redacted]>
- Subject: Disabled folks and DRM and PDFs
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:11:43 -0500
I would to share a personal experience I had.
Recently a close friend gave me as a gift Adobe's CS2 suite. Its a
lot of software to learn. After activation and such, I started
looking for ebooks to learn the software well. (often online help in
the software is not much help.) I found AdobePress.com. Bought an
ebook. Discovered, after much effort getting installed with the
correct version of Acrobat, that for the 700 page tome I am allowed
only to copy/paste 30 selections only over 30 days! Now I am given
unlimited printing from the PDF but thats not what I need. If I
wanted hard copy I would have bought the paperback. I find it hard to
understand such tight limitations on a training book. As a disabled
person I work best with everything on computer in digital form. All I
wanted was to copy and paste passages as I needed and when I needed
them to a digital notebook, in this case Circus Ponies' Notebook mac
app. So far the experience has soured me from wanting to buy or try
another DRM PDF again.
Shalom, Andrew
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