A plethora of un-choices (bit of a rant) - Page 2

flubu · 06-15-2007, 10:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kacir

Hanlin IS available in western europe.
Not V2 but V8

That's the thing.. The V8 is not an option because of the lack of formats supported. Plus, the V2 specs are much more impressive.

JSWolf · 06-17-2007, 09:09 PM

But according to the website, it uses a DRM .wol format which will only star off with 10 books and then some unknown publisher will do some more books and they mentioned nothing about any publishers most of us know. The Walkbook software is available do download and install now. But the problem is that it's an untried format without name brand publishers behind it. It's entirely possible we'll get major publishers to back WOL format. But until they do, do you really want to risk it?

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06-17-2007, 09:09 PM	#17
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 74,913 Karma: 131375774 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	But according to the website, it uses a DRM .wol format which will only star off with 10 books and then some unknown publisher will do some more books and they mentioned nothing about any publishers most of us know. The Walkbook software is available do download and install now. But the problem is that it's an untried format without name brand publishers behind it. It's entirely possible we'll get major publishers to back WOL format. But until they do, do you really want to risk it?