I can recall when the PDF file first made its appearance and it looked like the true paperless world was at hand. No more! What good is software which is designed to restrict every sort of usage possible. You can't even copy and paste a line of text. This makes research with Digital Editions pointless. The program demands you go online every time you use it and re-download a new version. This is just a variant of MS-style spyware, When Adobe began this with CS2, and then took it all the way to the absurd with CS3 I didn't think they could promote a more invasive and noisome approach to limiting usage, but they've apparently outdone themselves.

I recently opted for purchasing an online PDF of the fabulous ancient esoteric scripture the Kolbrin "bible." The owners of the Kolbrin copyrights made sure you can do nothing more than read this book through Digital Editions. This is practically useless. Adobe Digital Editions enables this sort of fascist copyright policy.

Well, if this is the shape of the future, I think we'll see paper libraries coming back into vogue!

I haven't had many crashes (well only when trying to quit out), but Adobe's MANDATORY reinstalling process – which must be performed EVERY time I want to read this book, is so absurd that I can only hope that this program fails miserably in the area of democratization, which, after all, is what the world wide web was originally meant to achieve. In this regard Adobe Digital Editions is a giant step backwards. This should be called Dodo publishing software!

Perhaps their R&D department might stop trying to figure out how to squeeze every last penny out of their software solutions, and start figuring out how to give the paying user SOMETHING for their money.

I am one sorry customer.