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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
I think you misunderstand something about the Kindle. You can get books from Gutenberg, Baen, Smashwords, etc, and library book borrowing is coming soon.
All ebooks available are available from either Amazon or one of the ePubs. All the ePub sellers have the same books, not separate sets of books, and you can get the same books from Amazon.
They don't limit you any more than Sony, or Barnes & Noble, etc.
Amazon customer service is excellent, and they allow you to return books, which no other ebook seller does.
Now, if you really want Android, that's fine, just wanted to make sure you understand the real situation with ebooks.
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Thank you Susan, so you are saying that Amazon and Barnes & Noble have the exact same books at the same prices? I guess I don't understand, since I find ebooks at Amazon that B&N do not offer and visa versa, so that is why I want to get books from both of them, or even some of the other etailers.
If they all have the same books, that is great news for me, since the searches I have done so far, show that they all offer some different books and some the same.
I did not know I could go to free book sites and get them on kindle. I thought kindle was only for amazon. How would one get the books on kindle? Manual download and some type of file format changing? I can't just go to the sites and use them as is can I? Also kindle does not allow for an SD card?, so where would I store the books? Internal memory is way too small for that??
Also can't Amazon pull books off your private kindle bookshelf whenever they wish? I understand they have done it before. If I buy a book, it's mine and if I buy a download I expect it to be mine as well, or I don't want to pay for it. If they can just take them back when they wish, then it's more like renting and that's way too expensive.
Sorry if I am blunt, but I don't know any other way and sorry if I don't know the whole story, just what I read here & there on the net. I remember reading a big to do about Amazon stripping people's kindle books and not reimbursing them for the books they lost. Was that real or a hoax?