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Originally Posted by Gladtobemom
What we "wish" is that we could buy a group of readers and have a family account for them all that would let us read all formats on Eink screen. So far, that's just not possible.
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You
can do that today, but it requires extra effort on managing your personal library of books. You need to strip DRM, import into Calibre, and convert formats as needed. It actually takes very little extra time or effort, and is my
normal workflow for a new book, making it available to everyone in the house in both MOBI and ePub formats.
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Originally Posted by Gladtobemom
We aren't freeloaders because we support the library. We support it with our patronage, our time (we do volunteer), our taxes, and our votes. The library does pay for books.
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I agree, and we use our BC Library system a lot.
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Originally Posted by Gladtobemom
The publishing industry is going through some changes. I hope that it will mean epublishers like Baen will facilitate the development of authors and bring the authors closer to their audiences. If it means that Amazon is going to be able to reach into my ebook-shelf at will and keep track of it . . . then that's evil.
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I like Baen as well, and buy a lot of their books. But I don't get this concern about Amazon reaching onto my ebook-shelf. They don't, and couldn't care less what books I've side-loaded or where they came from.