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Originally Posted by fbrII
What I find puzzling is the store. I hope I'm either doing something wrong or overlooking something but I can only find three books in English and It doesn't appear that there is much in the way of selections available for other languages either. It seems to me that it would be an embarrassment for Pocketbook to offer a bookstore with that limited a selection, plus, why bother with cloud availability if there is no content to store in the cloud?
Am I overlooking something or is that all that is really available through the Bookland store?
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The Bookland store has almost no English books. But you're not stuck using the built-in store. You can purchase books from many bookstores and, because the PocketBook device has ADE built-in, you can do all this without ADE installed on a PC.
Your first choice is to do everything with the built-in web browser. I've tested it with Overdrive, Google Books, Kobo (and maybe one other) and it works. You just go to the website, order your book, download the ascm file and then click the ascm link and download the book from wherever these come from. This works, but you're dealing with SLOW eInk web browser to do it.
The easier solution is to buy the book on your PC or smartphone (or tablet) and then send it to your PocketBook using the Send-To-PocketBook feature. And, again, click the ascm file and your book downloads from "ascm land." This requires no connection between the device and your InkPad. Be patient, however, sometimes the Send-To-PocketBook feature can take a half hour or so to deliver the ascm file to your device. (I guess depends on how busy PocketBook's server are.)
The third option, the most direct and quickest way but it requires a physical (USB) connection between your PocketBook and PC, is to just download the ascm file to your PC then copy it to your PocketBook's Download folder using your USB cable. And, then again, you then just click on the ascm file and the book downloads directly to your device.
As far as the Cloud goes... You don't have to buy your books from the BookLand store to load them into the BookLand (PocketBook) Cloud. When you sync your InkPad and it will automatically upload the books that are on your PocketBook to the Cloud (in my case BookLand), no matter where you bought the books. It will even move borrowed Overdrive books there (with their expiration date intact, though Overdrive books can't be read online – just there for syncing purposes I guess).
There's also a built-in DropBox option that I haven't tried yet.
Anyhow, lots of options with PocketBook.