Reading the Un-Book in Adobe Digital Editions

Who is using Adobe Digital Editions? And what are your experiences with it?

I have started reading the Un-Book I had downloaded from Lulu in ADE as I do not have Acrobat installed on all my computers. This allows me to digitally read the book and still follow Jay’s recommendation ‘to jot down my thouts’ – and – I do not have to look for any white space as I can bookmark / annotate a page, a phrase or a word and add my notes to it.

In addition to that I could (if I would have one) also read the Un-Book on a Sony® Reader PRS-505. The initiative certainly is an attempt of one of the big players in the industry to be ready for DRM and probably more to come.

On the other hand I can see some advantages in Un-Book projects like this one for both the author/publisher and for the participant (reader as mentioned above).

For the publisher this could be a secure way to make distribution of digital content safer (copy protection without limiting the usage for the reader). That said I would suggest Jay to anyway add some metadata to the Un-Book published:

Un-Book metadata as displayed in Adobe Digital Edition

1) and 2): Author and Publisher unknown and 3) Digital Rights without any limitations.

My personal experience as a reader (on an old PC with XP and only 512 MB of RAM) is that the tool is slow. So sometimes it takes a while until a bookmark with annotations is being displayed. What I like is the lean and intuitive interface.

Jay’s first Un-Book

Hey – I am back in a project with Jay Cross and am thinking of posting my experiences to this same blog I used while participating in the Un-Workshop two years ago.

I have therefore changed the title of the blog to represent the actual projects.

So if you are looking at posts prior to today’s date they refer to the old headline:

What is in the UnWorkshop to unlock and speed up Collaboration?

Resources: If you want to …

• … know more about Jay’s Un-Book? (PDF)
• … participate in the project: Purchase the Un-Book at Lulu (either in print or for download) to get both – the book at its actual release and access to the further developing resources on-line for a period of six months.

Hope you are going to join, but beware: The Un-Book is not about reading a book but about participating. See you there.