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Originally Posted by Rebo
This is  since the OP is requesting for info to buy books on the Nook.
Anynow, I'm glad that you're loving the Nook that you got from ebay as a second ereader just to read library books. It really beats the hassle and legality of stripping DRMs from library books for the kindle.
I've been reading primarily free books and library books on the Nook and have been loving it too. I've bought only a couple of ebooks that I really really like after browsing them in the B&N store. I honestly can't see spending too much money to purchase DRM restricted ebooks frome either B&N or Amazon. It doesn't make good economical sense to me to buy books that I don't own at the price that is sometimes more expensive than the paper backs. I can't read them in another reader or another device unless I have to install some apps or strip the DRM. Besides, I can't lend them, can't share them, can't donate them and can't sell them. Since I am not keen on reading newly published books or the hottest NY times best seller, there are always great free ebooks in the public domain and from the library to last me for a life time. |
To continue to be "off topic", I suppose - I didn't buy the nook "just to read library books" - in fact when I bought it I didn't think there were any libraries I could access (free) that had a decent selection - there weren't any when I bought my Sony reader last fall & checked around. But I found one in my state that had changed its policy so I could get a card online instead of in person. Then someone sent me a link to the Free Library of Philadelphia - a $15 card will pay for itself quickly.
I bought the Sony before the nook came out, and before Sony went to ePub. Recently it came to my attention that while the nook could read my Sony, Borders & Kobo books, the Sony couldn't read my B&N books. I'd picked up the B&N books free from B&N over the course of a year or so with my iPhone app, but I don't much like reading on the iPhone. I had purchased a few books from the Sony store, and some freebies. I had freebies from Kobo & Borders. So it made sense to sell the Sony and get a nook so all the ePubs could be in one place. If B&N didn't add their own flavor of DRM on their ePubs I'd be reading them on my Sony.
Sounds like your reading tastes are similar to mine. I rarely pay as much as 9.99 for an eBook on Amazon - in fact last time I checked my average was about $3.50 (and that didn't include free downloads). I read so much more than I used to I'm still catching up and I don't know that I've ever bought a "new release" unless it was offered as a freebie. And now that I can get library books too - it's the best of both worlds. I'll still buy some bargain books when I see them, I'll keep downloading any interesting-looking freebies. With my EBHD (eBook Hoarding Disorder) I've got way more to read than I can probably ever read in my lifetime! I'm just glad the price of e-readers has gone down to the point where I can have one of each for less than the price I'd have paid for the original Kindle when it first came out.
