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Old 06-09-2011, 06:18 AM   #31
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Only when Amazon supports epub - Kindle owners don't have easy access to Google Books.
Can't Google books be viewed in a browser on the kindle?

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Perhaps B&N can claim to be the biggest because they offer both Google and Smashwords books?
I don't know what books are sold by B&N, and I'm not going to look, because it would just piss me off that they don't sell them in Europe. But this is kind of what I was saying. In brick stores, the number of titles available is going to be limited by physical space. In online stores the limitation comes from contracts.
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These battery ratings are comparable to the EPA's Gas Mileage charts posted on new autos and trucks.

No one in the real world gets similar results because the tests performed to determine the ratings don't reflect the real world usage.
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These battery ratings are comparable to the EPA's Gas Mileage charts posted on new autos and trucks.

No one in the real world gets similar results because the tests performed to determine the ratings don't reflect the real world usage.
Make that "no one" - 1. I have.
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