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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
So who is already streaming ebooks? Didn't know it was already being done...
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Unless the software has changed since I ran away screaming from it, Google's book-reading app for Android allowed you to cache an entire purchased book to your local device, but obviously preferred to only let you have a little bit of it at a time, downloading bits of the book as needed as you made your way through, or fetching a chapter if you jumped ahead and selected an entirely different portion of the book.
I hated it because the instructions published for cacheing the entire book to the device (for reading without WiFi, HELLO?) repeatedly ran counter to my experience. The actions I took to finish downloading a partially loaded book (there was a little "pin icon"/blue pie chart next to each book in the library) always resulted in the exact opposite effect: it purged the book's local content entirely, and I'd have to go reload over WiFi if I so much as wanted page 1.
Yeah, there was a user==idiot problem in that chain, but even if I had mastered the Google Books magic, it was a very unpleasant experience. I don't know what GB does today. Fortunately, all the titles were available to me as Adobe ePUB downloads from the retail partner/indie bookstore website, and they've been in my Calibre library since forever now.