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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
A device that can only load books from a computer registered to that device only is sharply limited as an ebook reader because it doesn't have easy access to many ebook sources.
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You are correct, but only to a limited extent. You don't fully understand how eBooks get on the iPad.
The only "registered computer" situation is for books you buy from Apple. Those seem to be treated just like iTunes files.
But there are more sources for other ebooks on the iPad than for any other ebook reading device. For example, any Kindle book can be read on the iPad. Buying books for the Kindle App is no different than buying them for the Kindle - you go to Amazon on Safari, buy the book, & it gets sent to your App.
And getting free books on to the iPad is easy as pie, once you get the right App.
In fact, the peculiar thing about the way that Apple has set things up is that the iBook Store is actually the MOST limited source of ebooks for the iPad - a setup that's even dumber than the Sony/Adobe rigamarole. When you couple that with the lack of an iPhone/Touch iBook reader app, you have to wonder whether Apple actually understands how people read ebooks on its own devices...