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Originally Posted by LuvReadin
Oh, you must have seen them - they're all over the TV channels, showing happy cheery people in a country where the sun always shines (not the UK, then!  ), reading on the beach  , in the park, etc. No, they don't say the Kindle can't be used with library books, but as I said, Amazon doesn't warn buyers that it can't. |
To be fair, why would Amazon (or indeed anyone) advertise their product by highlighting something it can't do!?!
I agree it's pretty rubbish that people have bought Kindles and can't use them to borrow library books, but as with any technology, you've got to do some research first before you buy.
Personally, I used to read most of my books from the library, but I went for the Kindle despite of that.
1) My local library doesn't offer ebooks yet (and there are very few you can join without residing in the areas)
2) The number of ebooks available in most UK libraries isn't very high
3) For the few library books I have borrowed, I have no qualms about converting them to the Kindle format and deleting it once read as I would with the original epub format.