Maddz
Demi-God
A heads up: NetGalley is moving away from Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) and is going to be using Readium LCP going forward. What this means that is, if like me, you prefer to read epubs and pdfs on a Kobo with your legs up on the sofa, you won't be able to do so until Kobo integrate Readium LCP into their firmware. When (if) this will happen is up in the air.
Effectively, you can only read NetGalley offerings on a desktop or Kindle via the Thorium apps (which by all accounts aren't very good). It will only be a problem if you routinely request review copies from NetGalley; but for those of us who attend Worldcon, it will be a problem for some of the Hugo Packet offerings. Seanan McGuire's books usually are delivered by NetGalley, and I think there were one or two others last year.
The other issue is that the Readium DRM can't be (ahem) dealt with using the NoDRM/DeDRM plug-in in Calibre. Readium basically sent a 'cease-and-desist' to GitHub so the NoDRM maintainers had to quickly take down any version that had broken Readium LCP or loose access to the archive. Even if you have an older version kicking around, there's no guarantee that it will work because it's likely there's been an update to Readium...
Effectively, you can only read NetGalley offerings on a desktop or Kindle via the Thorium apps (which by all accounts aren't very good). It will only be a problem if you routinely request review copies from NetGalley; but for those of us who attend Worldcon, it will be a problem for some of the Hugo Packet offerings. Seanan McGuire's books usually are delivered by NetGalley, and I think there were one or two others last year.
The other issue is that the Readium DRM can't be (ahem) dealt with using the NoDRM/DeDRM plug-in in Calibre. Readium basically sent a 'cease-and-desist' to GitHub so the NoDRM maintainers had to quickly take down any version that had broken Readium LCP or loose access to the archive. Even if you have an older version kicking around, there's no guarantee that it will work because it's likely there's been an update to Readium...