Thread: Astak Mentor eBook readers with WiFi and Touchscreen (read-only)
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Old 07-23-2009, 11:35 AM   #2835
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Originally Posted by rixte View Post
Well, obviously there have been concerns expressed about Amazon's ability to access data on the device. But in regards to the '9 times out of 10', the Kindle at least is part of the remaining 1. You can currently use it to download any documents in a format it supports, not just from the Amazon bookstore.

I've used mine to download books directly from Baen, from Mobileread, from Tor and from numerous other sources.
My mistake.

Everything I had read, or assumed, was that you could only 'wirelessly download' books from Amazon on the Kindle. Not that you couldn't transfer books from other sites (Baen, MR, Tor, etc...) to the PC, then to the Kindle...but it was, again, assumed those were not accessible via wireless from unit to website.
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