RE: What doc formats do readers actually use? Was, "what doc formats do READERs want ?"

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

Tony Chung claimed:
> 
> On 2011-12-16, at 12:04 PM, "McLauchlan, Kevin"
> <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > There's probably an app for encrypting/decrypting files
> > on iPads, Samsung tablets, and other general purpose
> > tablet and slate computers, as well as (shudder!) on
> > Smartphones.  But since dedicated eReaders are pointedly
> > NOT that general-purpose, they don't have the capability
> > and don't have a way to bring it onboard after purchase.
> >
> 
> So does that mean you can't read password protected PDFs on an
> eReader? I can open my secure pay stub PDF on my iPhone.
> 
> One more reason for me to get an iPad!

Your iPhone (and that iPad you are getting yourself for 
Christmas/Hanukkah) can probably encrypt objects (like 
documents) if one of the million available Jobs-approved 
apps was created for the purpose. And likely the Android 
phones and pads can say the same thing. Or soon will, if 
there's a demand. 

If you actually need that feature for security, in 
case your pad (or phone) gets borrowed or stolen 
by black-hats, then are you sure it doesn't leave 
an unencrypted version of each file that you encrypt 
lying around somewhere in its file system?

For my part, I don't have a use for passworded PDFs, 
and nobody I know - including at work - uses the 
feature. All our corporate laptops are protected 
by whole-drive encryption. If you stole one, you'd 
basically have a useless box that you'd need to 
format and install an operating system. The device 
is a commodity. The data is the potentially valuable 
stuff.

I really didn't see why my wife wanted the color Kobo 
on which she insisted, since she does all her work on 
her laptop and her Crackberry, and the color Kobo (being 
a backlit device like pads and phones) has a useful battery 
life of less than a day, while the monochrome eInk model 
that I'm getting lacks some of the other Kobo's bells 
and whistles, but gets days and days and days of battery 
life WITH USE (not just on standby), and is easier to 
read outdoors.  
But hey, it's her present, so it's her choice. 
I did offer to get her an iPad2 or a Samsung tablet, 
but she refused, citing the expense and the start-up 
status of her business.  

-k



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