![]() ![]() I have indeed uninstalled the beta version but not before having been forced to install the "final" version. At least they will always be available when I need them… Categories Adobe, UX Tags Adobe Digital Editions, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Reader, eBooks, User Experience Way to go Adobe! I will definitely go back to buying paper copies only of any future books I buy. To say that I’m pissed that I apparently wasted $40 on an eBook I cannot even open is an understatement. No matter how I uninstall and reinstall it, reboot or delete its config folder, that piece of junk just will not start and keeps crashing almost as soon as I start it. The thing is, after installing this so called "final" version, it crashes right after I start it. That’s a whole other level of stupidity I’m not going to get into here. I won’t even go into the braindead decision to force customers who buy eBooks from Adobe Press to install and use beta software on their work machines. The version I was using before was a beta. This morning I tried to fire up Digital Editions to keep reading my eBook and I was prompted with a dialog forcing me to download the final release. But at least, it enabled me to open my ebook and read it. I HATE100% black user interfaces, especially in a utilitarian piece of software like this. For me, Digital Editions was slower than Reader and had a clunky interface… plus it’s all black and you cannot change that. This new Digital Editions things is just a far from subtle effort on Adobe’s part to push their Flex/RIA platform. Why on earth did Adobe think we needed yet another piece of reader software when we already had a perfectly good one that can do the job? That already bugged me quite a bit because I already have Acrobat Reader 8.1 installed and I quite like it but apparently, Adobe decided that unlike Reader versions 6 and 7, version 8 would not support and would not be able to open eBooks. When came the time to download it I was prompted to install a new reader application called Digital Editions. This was the first time I bought an eBook and the only reason I did was because I wanted it right away and didn’t want to wait for delivery.
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