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Feedback Summary:
| Version 1.7: | |||||
| Overall Rating: |   (1.3) |
Features: | (1.4) |
Support: | (1.8) |
| Ease of Use: | (1.4) |
Quality / Stability: | (2.0) |
Price: | (3.0) |
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needs page rotate.. among other things - Version: 1.7, 6/25/2009 10:33PM PST
Hobyx
It's very limited as a reader and a library. There's no page rotation, no page effects, no autoscroll, not very much of anything besides being a DRM client.
Another Waddling Turkey from Adobe - Version: 1.7, 4/16/2009 02:35PM PST
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rbryanh
It's glacially slow, it's ugly, and it's aggressively, hideously, and utterly un-Mac. It's an ill-conceived mediocrity - a Web 2.0 cloud fart inflicted upon your desktop.
No doubt it will become an industry standard through sheer force of monopoly.
No doubt it will become an industry standard through sheer force of monopoly.
Version 1.7 update - Version: 1.7, 3/24/2009 08:11AM PST
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iamdorian2
I know that Adobe no longer pushes this software on Versiontracker (or the competition's software site), and for good reason. The list of things one could say about this - in the negative - continue to move away from software performance issues, and into the realm of fascism. No matter what version you have, in order to even open this product Adobe forces you to submit to reloading their "latest" software version. Is this invasive, I am sure it is. Perhaps a programmer (who understands the FireWalls and other issues can tell us), but knowing Adobe's more recent pension for snooping, I'd say it is.
Additionally, what's the point of all this digital "convenience" of digital, if you can't even print or copy text from a book (this feature is turned on by more paranoid/reedy publishers of popular books to keep people from digitizing them - the Kolbrin comes to ind here). Might as well buy a REAL book, and scan what you want.
It's time to do for digital books, what is being done for music encryption - eliminate it and trust to a small loss in revenues for making this planet a nicer, friendlier planet. (What ever happened to that HitchHiker's Guide to the G_ entry, "Mostly Harmless?")
I suppose the next worse thing is the hardware-only solution of that jungle-named company, but that's another story...
Adobe, best of luck on everything . . . but this sort of software. Here's to ya!
Additionally, what's the point of all this digital "convenience" of digital, if you can't even print or copy text from a book (this feature is turned on by more paranoid/reedy publishers of popular books to keep people from digitizing them - the Kolbrin comes to ind here). Might as well buy a REAL book, and scan what you want.
It's time to do for digital books, what is being done for music encryption - eliminate it and trust to a small loss in revenues for making this planet a nicer, friendlier planet. (What ever happened to that HitchHiker's Guide to the G_ entry, "Mostly Harmless?")
I suppose the next worse thing is the hardware-only solution of that jungle-named company, but that's another story...
Adobe, best of luck on everything . . . but this sort of software. Here's to ya!
