No need to remember an old CC number at all.

I’ve done this over the years as I’ve changed cards.

Books I’ve purchased 7 years ago now all use my reent CC number.

You don’t really talk about eReader on the iPhone which does NOT ask you for the credit card information (you simply use your eReader ID/pw or fictionwise ID/pw to log into your bookshelf and download – no extra DRM step) and it does load ebook titles about as fast as they load on the iPhone Kindle app.

As a pure reading app, the current eReader app for iPhone is actually more advanced than the Kindle app with one exception – the Kindle app will sync your position in a book across multiple devices.

The prices, however, are what will kill eReader on all platforms if B & N doesn’t address it quickly.

My opinion is that just as the iPhone did, the Kindle raised the bar for what we can expect from an eBook reader.

Trying to memorize my EXACT registered name — as well as full credit card number I used to purchase a book 3 years ago — is not user friendly to me.

This has happened to me multiple time when I’ve switched devices and decided to give the reader another go. Sure, the books transferred but not after a LOT of frustrating brain wracking.

Not the user experience I’m looking for in the future.

First, I was always under impression that the DRM system used in eReader is more user friendly than the others. Sure you have to remember the credit card number, but I have Wallet software for exactly that purpose on my Diamond, and considering you only have to do the unlocking once for particular device and that there is no stupid limitations with the number or type… of the devices it’s (in my opinion) the most unobtrusive DRM system available.

Also, while I would love to have the Amazon Kindle prices, the truth is Kindle and it’s books are only available to less than 5% of world’s population, so us, the other 95+% have to get by with other services.
And at the end I can read a book from eReader on my WM devices, PCs or maybe iPhone, Blackberry and Symbian phone (if I ever get such a device) – I don’t have to buy $350 single purpose black&white device.

I guess it depends on your personal preferences, or at least on what is available to you…