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umanemo · 01-23-2012, 12:56 PM

I travel extensively throughout Europe in a RV as a full time lifestyle. My wife reads books as her common passtime and has collected and trades dozens of books and has dozens constantly on hand - a storage problem in our abbreviated living space. She needs one of these devices.

We are US citizens and have library access in our former community. We are also on a limited fixed income budget (read: CHEAP) and would like to download as many as possible of the available titles that are free. Therein may lie the glitch to our hopeful solution to the book storage problem.

From Overseas can we download everything or anything? I.E. Library downloads (ILL), Lend-to-read books from family, Retail downloads, etc. I have heard that this is a problem as the servers recognize your location and block downloads under the copyright acts of that country or the EU zone?

Has anyone had any luck with family or friends paying for and downloading titles, free or paid for, to their PC (in the USA) and forwarding those title files by E-Mail to a computer overseas for a USB transfer to a eReader device??? Does this seem to be a viable solution to circumvent the overseas conventions.

What device brands will be most open to all formats that offer free reading material? Which devices would support the transfer scheme outlined above?

OK. So many questions and so little knowledge! Thank you for everyone's help.

01-23-2012, 12:56 PM	#1
umanemo Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: none	Overseas Downloads? I travel extensively throughout Europe in a RV as a full time lifestyle. My wife reads books as her common passtime and has collected and trades dozens of books and has dozens constantly on hand - a storage problem in our abbreviated living space. She needs one of these devices. We are US citizens and have library access in our former community. We are also on a limited fixed income budget (read: CHEAP) and would like to download as many as possible of the available titles that are free. Therein may lie the glitch to our hopeful solution to the book storage problem. From Overseas can we download everything or anything? I.E. Library downloads (ILL), Lend-to-read books from family, Retail downloads, etc. I have heard that this is a problem as the servers recognize your location and block downloads under the copyright acts of that country or the EU zone? Has anyone had any luck with family or friends paying for and downloading titles, free or paid for, to their PC (in the USA) and forwarding those title files by E-Mail to a computer overseas for a USB transfer to a eReader device??? Does this seem to be a viable solution to circumvent the overseas conventions. What device brands will be most open to all formats that offer free reading material? Which devices would support the transfer scheme outlined above? OK. So many questions and so little knowledge! Thank you for everyone's help.