Will you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited?

[jbcohen]

Going to need to do some thinking.

[jbcohen]

Going to need to do a lot of thinking.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by jbcohen

What about entitle, do they offer a way for me to interface with my paperwhite? The fact that they provide books in epub is not a problem since I have Calibre which can convert the books for me.

True enough Duckie, I am judging the service on what is often called the Net Present Value.

Entitle won't let you use your regular ADE userid, so if you already use epub with your own userid you would either have to login and logout all the time or use different computers. I don't know if you can use ADE 2.x either because you have to login with the vendor name and userid and I don't remember seeing this option on ADE 2.x. Otherwise I might try them.
http://www.ereatah.com/alt-reader

[fjtorres]

Well, the trial offer doesn't appear to be only an introductory thing...
You can always wait a month or two for things to shake out.

[SteveK]

PurpleLady - I don't know why Entitle recommends using a different logon/password combination. Apparently, ADE should allow multiple logons, but doesn't. I had a lengthy round of technical support with them when I first joined, but ended up just using my standard login to avoid the problems you indicated.

To this day, Entitle still recommends a unique ID, which only causes problems. Not very user friendly, in my opinion. I've never used a different ID with ADE, only Entitle encourages it.

SteveK

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by SteveK

PurpleLady - I don't know why Entitle recommends using a different logon/password combination. Apparently, ADE should allow multiple logons, but doesn't. I had a lengthy round of technical support with them when I first joined, but ended up just using my standard login to avoid the problems you indicated.

To this day, Entitle still recommends a unique ID, which only causes problems. Not very user friendly, in my opinion. I've never used a different ID with ADE, only Entitle encourages it.

SteveK

If it works with your regular userid, I don't know why they would tell you to deauthorize your current login. That's the only reason I didn't want to even try them. I'll have to think about it now.

[CWatkinsNash]

I voted no because I no longer have a Kindle, and I don't read on my tablet or phone. Plus, it will be a long time before I go through everything I want to read that I already own or is available at my library.

[rguion]

Originally Posted by Poodlemom1

There is a link in your welcome letter. Click on "get started" in the second paragraph.

Thank you so much Poodlemom! I never even looked at that! Luckily I still had it.

[SteveK]

PurpleLady - I sent you a message. I've had no problems using my standard Adobe ID rather than the vendor-specific ID recommended by Entitle. No idea why they recommend using a vendor specific ID, as it accomplishes nothing and only complicates your dealings with other vendors or libraries.

SteveK

[Atunah]

Originally Posted by jbcohen

Going to need to do a lot of thinking.

I think the best way to figure things like that out is making lists of books you like to read and then look for them on the services. See if you can get a wish to read list long enough to make it worth while.

I have both a Scribd and a KU subscription right now. Scribd has an app for Kindle Fires also, but of course, no way to read on the Paperwhite. If that is a deal breaker alone for you, then there really is only one option, KU.

I am reading Scribd on my Nexus and I was one of those people that thought I could never read on a tablet. My Fires are older, so maybe its the resolution, I don't know, but I find it quite nice reading on it.

Scribd has some nice big publishers, Open Road, Kensington, HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, Diversion books, Sourcebooks.
You can browse the full catalog without signing up and drill down to genres to see if what you like to read is there.

KU also as Open Road titles, I see Kensington also. Also noticed Sourcebooks.
They also have all the Amazon publishing houses of course and I found some nice titles with them.

You can go to kindle unlimited and see all and then type in the publishers to see what is offered. Browse through the genres of the sites and just add stuff to wishlists if you see something you like. Its not like there is any hurry, take a few days and then you have an idea which will be better for you, if any.

Since KU has mostly self publishers right now I have found some nice Amazon publishing titles I want to read and a few others. I found that SP's don't publish a lot of stuff in the genres I like to read, (Full novel size romance, historical romance, historical mystery, sci fi romance, etc).

So most of them I either already read, or got as a freebie or added to my wishlist. I have about 50 now in my KU wishlist and so that should cover me for 4 months. I'll make a decision about it then and maybe they'll get some publishers.

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by jbcohen

I am finding out that each service has their downside:
1) Amazon Unlimited, no major book publishing houses
2) Scribd, can't use my paperwhite
3) Oyster, that's apple only
And upside:
1) Amazon Unlimited: Using my paperwhite, that's a no brainer;
2) Scribd, major book publishers

Scribd and Oyster both have Android and iOS apps. Their services and catalogs are very similar so it's tough to choose between them. Both have major publishers HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster. I prefer Oyster because they also have Houghton Mifflin Harcourt books which expands the selection to famous authors such as Lois Lowry, Tolkein, Philip Roth, Amos Oz, Paul Theroux, Jasper Fforde, Jhumpa Lahiri, Umberto Eco, and many more. Their interface is also more polished. Both companies have apps that are limited in features (mainly missing options to change margins, line-spacing and justification), and they both have pluses and minuses that counter each other. Both Scribd and Oyster have dictionaries in the iOS versions.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl

I prefer Oyster because they also have Houghton Mifflin Harcourt books which expands the selection to famous authors such as Lois Lowry, Tolkein, Philip Roth, Amos Oz, Paul Theroux, Jasper Fforde, Jhumpa Lahiri, Umberto Eco, and many more.

Famous??? ...never heard of them; but then, I mostly read long dead authors

[mgmueller]

I want to have the ebooks I'm interested in.
I've never rented books via Nook or Kindle (Prime).
Only exception: I would rent newsmagazines. I wouldn't re-read them, I wouldn't collect them. So reading them once would be okay.
But for eBooks, I don't have the need.

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Famous??? ...never heard of them; but then, I mostly read long dead authors

Surely you've at least heard of J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings? These are indeed notable, award-winning, successful authors. I intentionally picked an ecclectic mix from travel to contemporary literature to fantasy and young adult. I'm positive you can find some of them in the Seattle library.

[jbcohen]