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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mlund" data-source="post: 6018041" data-attributes="member: 50304">That would be awesome, but the platform dependency would cheese some people off. The nice thing about PDF is pretty much every PC, MAC, and device running iOS, Android, or a Linux distribution can read a PDF. I get the importance of being as agnostic as possible in terms of operating system.On the other hand, I also completely understand the desire to make unlicensed distribution less simple than just sharing a PDF on docs.google.com. If there were some sort of lightweight, platform-agnostic app that implemented something like HTML5 and CSS3 and just managed a basic 1-at-a-time Account ID and the documents it read contained authorization based on said Account ID that would probably be ideal. Copy the file all your want. Back it up until the cows come home. Use it on a million different devices. Use it online or off-line as you please. It'll only run on a copy of the app that's been hooked to your purchase Account ID.Sure, someone can circumvent that by circulating their purchase Account ID and Password. What could possibly go wrong, right? Someone could even use multiple IDs all the time by keeping a slew of app installs on virtual machines, but that's effort. Even just deterring the lazy pirates would be significant.What I'd really like about something like this would be the option to re-download the latest version of a book I purchased with the latest Errata already integrated (if not in the layout at least as a rollover or flyout at the appropriate section). One of the biggest selling-points for the digital Compendium and Character Builder for 4E for me was not having to cross-reference errata documents with the books.That feature would require the latest and patch of the app, thus reducing the value of unlicensed 3rd party reader apps or cracked versions of the main reader. Updated versions would add value over the typical leaked print-shop pirate PDF copies of most books too.- Marty Lund</blockquote>

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