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Originally Posted by PDowns
Your talking way over my head, all I want to do is just download a book of modern fiction?
Where and How? In simple terms for a layperson. Please!
I have had my beautiful jetbook 2 days.
Would love to read something other than this forum....
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Easy-peasy. In baby steps, it's:
1) Download an unencrypted (no DRM) .mobi, .prc, .html, or .epub ebook file to your computer from whereever in the Internet you get such things*. Remember where you put it! Write the location down if you have to.
2) Connect the USB cable to your computer. At least the big black plug has to be engaged. The red plug just provides extra amperage for charging the jetBook (I think). Then connect the jetBook to the small black plug.
3) Turn the jetBook on if it isn't already. I tend not to hot-plug expensive hardware.
4) Wait a few minutes. The jetBook screen will eventually show a drawing that looks like a computer hooked to a jetBook.
5) On your computer, go to whatever kind of listing of storage devices it has. Windows will have a window "My Computer" or "Computer", for example. You'll see a new drive. That's the jetBook internal drive. (If you have a card in the SD card slot, you'll see two new drives.) Select it and open it. In Windows, you'd double click the icon for the drive.
6) Navigate to where you want to put the file on the jetBook drive.
6a) Open a window (or whatever) to the place you saved the ebook file.
7) Copy** the ebook file to one of the folders in the jetBook drive.
8) Safely unhook the two computers. See your particular computer's procedures.
9) Go to book location in jetBook.
10) Read.
Alternate method (summary): Do 1) above. Get an SD card. Plug it into your computer's SD card reader and drag the file to the SD card. Remove the SD card and plug it into the jetBook SD card reader. Wait a while. Do 9) above. Eventually you'll see your book. Do 10) above.
* I like Baen's Free Library and Webscriptions website, Fictionwise Multiformat, and Project Gutenberg. YMMV
**How to copy, etc.: Windows and Mac people would drag and drop. DOS and Linux folks would type something like "copy fubar.prc R:\foldername". Pick your religion. I learned to program on an Olivetti-Underwood Programmo 101. IMO, computers peaked with Vaxen accessed thorugh MS-DOS Tek emulators. Everything since has been baroque ornamentation.
Regards,
Jack Tingle