If I was running Fictionwise, and I wanted to make it difficult (but not strictly impossible, ’cause that would be cheating) for readers to browse their SF section, I’m not sure I could improve on what they’ve got.

(Also, a warning to anyone contemplating being as stupid as me: if I wanted to make an ebook format more painful to use than Adobe Secure Reader 7, that format would have to somehow pull out the reader’s fingernails with hot tongs. Would someone explain to me what the point of downloading a file is if you have to connect to the internet every time I want to read it? No? Talk about DRM that punishes the legitimate purchaser . . .)