09-06-2010, 11:07 PM | #16 | |
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There's no need to be so condescending. As I mentioned in my post, I did my research before purchasing. I'm well aware I could strip the DRM from an epub and use calibre to convert it to mobi and read it on the kindle. However, I prefer not to do that. For this reason, I'm very pleased with my nook and the fact that it reads epub. I didn't meant to start some kind of nook vs. kindle argument, so no need for kindle owners to get their panties in a twist. After all I did make this post in the NOOK subforum. I was really more wondering if other nook owners prefer to get their books from b&n or other sites. Buying from b&n on the nook is quick and easy, while price comparing, downloading from another site, then side loading takes a bit more time and effort. |
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09-06-2010, 11:12 PM | #17 | |
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09-06-2010, 11:13 PM | #18 |
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09-06-2010, 11:37 PM | #19 | |
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I bought some from Simon & Schuster's website, then they stopped carrying eReader. About the same time, Amazon and B&N stopped selling ebooks and shafted all their previous ebook buyers by deleting their bookshelves. I bought some from eReader.com. But I came to find that Fictionwise had everything I wanted, and it was easier to avoid re-buying books. When Amazon first came out with the Kindle, I didn't trust they wouldn't do the same thing that they'd done before...back out! With all the DRM-busting software out there, I could buy anywhere now. So I buy ePub and I price-shop. (I also keep a list of the books I own, to be my own budget police!) But if the DRM-hacks went away, I'd be back to buying only eReader DRM, when buying DRM. |
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09-07-2010, 02:10 PM | #20 | |
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I prefer library books! However, I'm happy with a wide variety of reading materials so I can almost always find cheap stuff that will fill my needs. Both the Kindle and the Nook have a lot of free or really inexpensive choices. I did download some free books from the Borders store when they went live and disliked the web site enough that I never went back. I need to explore some of the more independent bookstores because I don't see that much of a difference between B&N, Borders and Amazon, in price and selection of agency books. I'd buy self published and ebook only publishers if there were an easy way to figure what I might enjoy. I do look here, but it will take a while to find someone who likes what i do and also to make sure the recommendations are not influenced by knowing (or being the) an author. |
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09-07-2010, 08:56 PM | #21 | |
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Until you made your bold and misleading statement implying you can just pop over to B&N, Sony, or an Overdrive/ADE public library and grab any book to just drop into your Kindle without any format manipulation, I had never heard anyone claim it could be done. All anyone did was respond with their disbelief in your claim. Not once did anyone claim "better than thou", just "better for my purposes". They merely asked for clarification that you, amongst all those who have said differently, can simply and easily (for instance) borrow a book from the public library using ADE. |
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09-07-2010, 09:21 PM | #22 | |
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But again, as she states, there is an ebook reader for everyone. Personally, I am glad I chose my Kindle over the nook, but to each their own. |
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09-07-2010, 09:39 PM | #23 |
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I don't know there's something about manipulating the format of a library ebook to fit your kinldle that just seems sleazy, like taking clothes from a GoodWill Bin. |
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09-07-2010, 10:16 PM | #25 | |
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The book closes at the end of the loan period, is returned to the library and is no longer readable. And thats "sleazy" how? |
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09-07-2010, 10:24 PM | #26 |
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Sorry Jessica. I was just being a smart ass. I apologize if I came off as condescending.
The good thing about the nook, for our DRM friendly friends, is that it reads just about any ePub. The bad news for those of us anti-DRM, is that the B&N DRM only seems to work on the nook. :/ |
09-07-2010, 10:33 PM | #27 | |
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I reread the OP and I still only see "this is what works for me because...". And I still see Daffy's statement of "I can do that, too" as implying it is done just like the nook w/o file manipulation. She didn't clarify her statement with "after stripping the DRM and changing the format." Of course, Daffy didn't say she could READ the books from other sources -- merely that she could BUY them. So, in reality, those of us viewing her claim askance actually inferred that she actually reads them, too. And that can only be done with a Kindle after stripping the DRM and changing the format. Then again, she didn't say she bought DRM books, either, so once again, we only inferred it. So I guess the joke is on us for assuming we knew what she was saying. Last edited by eGeezer; 09-07-2010 at 10:37 PM. |
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because what you're doing isn't legal nor is it your property to manipulate, let alone to a non profit org.
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09-08-2010, 01:59 AM | #30 | |
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I was wondering a lot more about people shopping habits then wanting to get into a nook vs. kindle epub vs. mobi discussion. Perhaps it was unwise of me to even mention the kindle. |
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