Thanks for the links to the free content, that's a good comprehensive start!
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Originally Posted by scotty1024
All those postings are wonderful stuff, but the original thread point is quoted above. He's not looking for free, he's looking to get current hot sell content.
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That's true. Not to sneeze at the 100 year old classics, but I'm more of a modern man. I mainly stick to sci-fi and magazines. Certainly if my tastes ran more in the vane of what's on Gutenberg, I wouldn't be worrying about it.
As it is, it sounds like it's more as I expected, a DIY affair. Which isn't necessarily a deal breaker as long as there are some ways to get content that I like onto it. I don't even mind buying the content I have to convert from mobipocket or whoever. (Although I live in eastern europe and don't have much fear of the DRM Gestopo or need to consult my lawyer every time I click a link on my computer
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So if I get content in mobipocket I can print it and use a print-to-pdf conduit? I would imagine most readers don't support printing...?
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Originally Posted by ksumi
What about this idea (I guess a lot of people already doing it like this?): You just buy your DRM stuff (e.g. DRM-PDFs) and display it on the computer-screen, then you just need an automated "screen-capture" program which presses the next-page button, capture part of the screen, presses the next-page button, ... at the end you have many pictures which you could then convert into a pdf consisting of those images, of course you don't have the real text, but it should be readable on the iLiad with no problems?
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Something like that would be nice, it would be a lot more universal than the other solutions which seem like a mishmash of various cracks and workarounds and web sites I'll have to learn. I just want to read a book I like, you know? I don't necessarily want to take up a new form of contect cracking.