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jrl007 · 02-14-2010, 05:40 PM

and ordered the Jetbook Lite, $129 @ Newegg. I did a lot of research here (thanks everyone who directly and indirectly helped) and other places, and I think I'm going to be happy with it. I just have a few questions:

1) Library books. Our local library here has a pretty large section of E-books, and I guess I ASSumed that if a reader could handle epub, I'd be able to utilize the library's ebook section, but in one of the threads in the Ectaco section mentioned that the JBL could NOT read library books? I went through all of the threads in this section, read most of them from as far back as I could go, so it may have been an older post and no longer relevant. It mentioned an Adobe Format that a reader has to handle in order to read library books. I'm a little confused, I thought library books were the epub format? Is there any way that I could find out if my library's books are comaptible with the JBL? Maybe they have some info on their website to point me in the right direction. I wanted to check here first so I'd know what to look for.

2) periodicals, newspapers, etc? Is there anyplace to download things like this, and once again what format should I look for?

3) RSS newsfeeds? Can I read these on the JBL? I *think* that I read it does HTML but once again not sure.

I have/had a TON of questions and a lot of them were/will be answered by the posts that are already here, I've got a lot of reading to do to learn the ins and outs of my new device, these were just a couple of questions that I hadn't been able to find answers for yet, or was confused but what I've read.

Thanks in advance for any and all replies!

02-14-2010, 05:40 PM	#1
jrl007 Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Usa Device: magflalmVE	Took the plunge... and ordered the Jetbook Lite, $129 @ Newegg. I did a lot of research here (thanks everyone who directly and indirectly helped) and other places, and I think I'm going to be happy with it. I just have a few questions: 1) Library books. Our local library here has a pretty large section of E-books, and I guess I ASSumed that if a reader could handle epub, I'd be able to utilize the library's ebook section, but in one of the threads in the Ectaco section mentioned that the JBL could NOT read library books? I went through all of the threads in this section, read most of them from as far back as I could go, so it may have been an older post and no longer relevant. It mentioned an Adobe Format that a reader has to handle in order to read library books. I'm a little confused, I thought library books were the epub format? Is there any way that I could find out if my library's books are comaptible with the JBL? Maybe they have some info on their website to point me in the right direction. I wanted to check here first so I'd know what to look for. 2) periodicals, newspapers, etc? Is there anyplace to download things like this, and once again what format should I look for? 3) RSS newsfeeds? Can I read these on the JBL? I think that I read it does HTML but once again not sure. I have/had a TON of questions and a lot of them were/will be answered by the posts that are already here, I've got a lot of reading to do to learn the ins and outs of my new device, these were just a couple of questions that I hadn't been able to find answers for yet, or was confused but what I've read. Thanks in advance for any and all replies!