Amazon to launch Library Lending

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by ApK

I think she meant this:

"Geesh, tubemonkey for a handle!?! Monkeys spread AIDS in Africa!"

Not this monkey. I wear a sock for protection.

[pilotbob]

Man... it would be cool if you can send your notes on an eBook to evernote. Every other app is integrating with them, why not the kindle and kindle app?

BOb

[anamardoll]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Man... it would be cool if you can send your notes on an eBook to evernote. Every other app is integrating with them, why not the kindle and kindle app?

BOb

Completely off topic, but re:Evernote integration, you can do this with Moon+ android reader if you also have the Evernote android app installed.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by anamardoll

Completely off topic, but re:Evernote integration, you can do this with Moon+ android reader if you also have the Evernote android app installed.

Yes your right... but the discussion did harp on the ability to keep your notes on a library book and how you would access them if you didn't later purchase the book. So, my thoughts where, if you could send them to Evernote that would be one way to save them.

So, mostly off topic.

BOb

[carld]

Originally Posted by Nathanael

Amazon thinks this is a good idea WHY, exactly? If I want to take notes on a book, I'll do it in a notebook, thank you. Better yet, I'll check out the epub on my iPad and fire up Notes Plus. And the notes are mine to keep forever, no Amazon account required :-)

Yes, having options is such a horrible inconvenience!

[anamardoll]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Yes your right... but the discussion did harp on the ability to keep your notes on a library book and how you would access them if you didn't later purchase the book. So, my thoughts where, if you could send them to Evernote that would be one way to save them.

So, mostly off topic.

BOb

Oh, yes, completely agree - I'm pretty sure that Amazon wants you to buy THEIR version in order to get your notes out.

Just had to give a shout-out to Moon+.

[Andrew H.]

Originally Posted by Nathanael

Amazon thinks this is a good idea WHY, exactly?

Because the functionality can also be used as a troll detector.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Fankittehs usually don't

no, I'm a truthkitteh if anything. you haven't been around long enough to know the origins of this handle so leave off.

it is old, dusty, ancient, been there, done that, got the t-shirts and am now using them for dustrags news

[RockdaMan]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

I can't FREAKING believe it

[Joykins]

Interesting.

My thoughts.

1) I just sank a lot of $ into B&N nook, including content. 2 of the 3 reasons I chose nook over Kindle are now gone (lending, library). epub / PDF format handling still a differentiator, but the differences are slimmer. Still prefer e-ink but I still do occasional iPhone reading on various apps for various reasons (portability, backlight-- night reading while a car passenger).

2) Agree this will increase wait time for new releases at library. BUT...I've been bottom-feeding off old PDF releases at my library, currently with no wait time. IF (big IF) I can check out these old PDF releases in *.azw format (which is not clear to me) then that is a WIN because PDFs are tedious to read on an e-ink reader. While I don't have a Kindle, I do have the App and would rather read a Kindle book on my phone than a PDF reflowed with the bad kind of hyphenation issues on my nook. On the other hand, now that these PDF books are available to a new market segment there might be more of a wait for them.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

no, I'm a truthkitteh if anything. you haven't been around long enough to know the origins of this handle so leave off.

it is old, dusty, ancient, been there, done that, got the t-shirts and am now using them for dustrags news

Post read.

[teadonkey]

Ever since I got my Kindle, I've only made purchases on it that aren't at the library, so this doesn't really super effect me, I suppose? I've never had an issue with checking out a hardback or a paperback.

Also I live in a small town where my local library has like... 2 ebooks. So if they get any Kindle books, it'll be a while.

I like that this will shut the people who moan and groan about Kindle's lack of Library Lending up, though. This has always bothered the living day lights out of me!

[ProfCrash]

Amazon has a website that you can go to and look at your notes. You can even cut and paste them into word documents so you can print them out. I do believe that any student who read a book they borrowed from the library would be able to use said feature to save their notes or retrieve their notes at a later date.

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

Amazon has a website that you can go to and look at your notes. You can even cut and paste them into word documents so you can print them out. I do believe that any student who read a book they borrowed from the library would be able to use said feature to save their notes or retrieve their notes at a latter date.

Good call!

[fallen4]

This is great news because that is what brought me to this forum. Converting Adobe epub to mobi. With all the help in this forum you would think I would have solved my problem. But frankly I just got more confused