Saw some posts and comments from a while back about the Trek books and decided to give them a try. Starting out with “Q-Squared” because it was on sale for $1.99 and I figured a Q-centric story would be a fun entry point. I am now kind of regretting that frugal decision.
It follows multiple parallel realities (called “tracks” in the book) with Q and Trelane central to the plots, so my usual casual reading style of a chapter each evening is not working out well because I just cannot keep up.
The only saving grace is that I’ve at least read “A Stitch in Time” so I know not all Trek books are this confusing. Probably going to have to just power through this one and not let it ruin the medium. It’s not that it’s a bad story, just hard to follow.
Both technical limitations, convenience, and moral objections to DRM (if it has to phone home or I can’t use it how I want, I won’t buy it). I have a Kobo but prefer to have a clean epub for whatever I buy so I feel like I actually own it.
The online shop I bought “Q-Squared” from has most of them DRM free, including all 3 of the Destiny books. Not sure how deep the DRM-free well is, but spot checking it shows most of the ones I looked at were clean. Worst comes to worse, I’ll do like I did when I still bought ebooks from Amazon and buy the DRM’d version and high-seas a clean copy.