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I don't know of a video that claims that the Mini has "the same way to get the books
on it as the Jetbook lite"; if there is one that does that, then it is very wrong. One of
the greatest features of the JBL is the fact that it supports a very large number of the
formats that ebooks use, all the most used (except Kindle's of course). The JBL also
now provides support for the three most used DRM scams (again except Kindle's), so
that just about all the eBook online retailers will offer books in a format that can be
read on the JBL (except Amazon, of course). [Unless you learn how to remove the DRM
infection, you will need a reader that supports the DRM scam that a book you purchase
is crippled with, in order to read the book.]
The Mini currently can only read documents in the .txt file format or the .fb2 file format.
It has no DRM support. While there is a lot of free public domain literature available in
the .txt file format, I know of no one selling any current (published within the last 70
years) commercially published material, in that format. There is the "DarkNet" but all of
that is provided in more compressed formats.
This is where Calibre comes in for the Mini. Calibre and other such programs can convert
from one ebook format to another. Caliber, like most of them, will not work with DRM
infected files. There are greater numbers of DRM free ebooks offered in formats with
some compression, like ePub, Mobi, Palm Document, ect... but you won't find the books
recommended by Oprah or Glen Beck or The New York Times available without DRM.
I like a number of the features of the Mini but with its current limitations I could not
recommend it to anyone not having a specific use for it that wouldn't be effected by
the Mini's current shortcomings.
Luck;
Ken
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