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Well, yesterday I ran afoul of the Penguin/Kindle/Amazon problem.
I have a rooted Nook Color, on which I have the Kindle app. I also have it on my PC.
Requested a book from FLP and when it came in to Philadelphia, I only had the option of Kindle or pdf. So, SINCE I'VE LOADED A COUPLE DOZEN KINDLE BOOKS ONTO THE NOOK AND READ THEM WITHOUT PROBLEM, I picked the Kindle version. Got dumped over to Amazon and found out it had to be loaded by "USB"...
I had no idea this was going to screw things up this badly... Apparently you literally HAVE to have a physical Kindle reader - NOT the "free Kindle app" or a Nook tablet running Kindle - an actual reader. So far, the book thinks it's checked out from the library but I have found ABSOLUTELY no way to get it on either of my "readers"... I ORIGINALLY figured it was Penguin that was the cause of all this garbage. But now I'm starting to wonder if the stench goes all the way to Amazon since you can ONLY read these books by buying one of their readers.... And YES, IF IT HAD BEEN AVAILABLE IN EPUB I'D HAVE GOTTEN THE EPUB.
Annoying, to say the least.
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