As far as I'm concerned, ADE is a mess that Adobe won't clean up because ADE is free, and therefore Adobe derives no revenue from it. Today's thoroughly modern corporation has only one goal: to increase revenue, The only revenue that is useful is revenue that continually increases, and therefore is unsustainable. I believe that the economic crisis that will make capitalism useless is already beginning, The limits of sustainability are imminent.
ADE serves only one purpose - protecting DRM. I get most of my e-books from the Ohio Digital Library Online. Those books are downloaded in .ascm format. You can't make use of them without ADE. Despite it's formidible shortcomings I have to use ADE. I have no choice in the matter. I don't use Kindle - I will never use Kindle. Kinle is a hustle, a scam. The ODLO allows you to download ebooks in Kindle format, but it has what amounts to a warning: 'Report Kindle Book Problem'.
I have a lot of ebooks, I have the complete works of 17 writers - I got them from Delphi Classics. They sell most of their e-books for $2.99.
I don't use ADE as my ebook reader, I only use it for library books.
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