The Kobo won, it is simpler and I could buy it at a physical shop. So I was abroad, and had the choice of a Kobo at Chapters, or a Kindle via Once I bought a second hand book from a shop in New York for 1$ (Man-Kzin Internet is not that much a global market. Amazon, forĮxample, warns that they are not allowed to sell all books on allĬountries, there are restrictions. You have to buy what is available, not what Paper booksĬost about double their original price, and the selection is too short You can not imagine how difficult and expensive it is to read English on a I will try this sometime.īut I know of two help files in my Kobo that don’t come the same way as the Good idea! Actually, the first book I read was free. > encrypted using the DRM you’d have from a purchased book, IIRC. If you dont have a Kindle e-reader or the Kindle app, Kindle for Web is perfect for you. > selections as well - B&N does, for example, but the book is still Kindle for Web lets you read your Kindle books on your mobile or desktop browser. > Most of the online booksellers that I’ve shopped through offer free > But meanwhile it serves my purpose of reading English without paying Selections as well - B&N does, for example, but the book is stillĮncrypted using the DRM you’d have from a purchased book, IIRC. Most of the online booksellers that I’ve shopped through offer free It is one of the problems with these devices, > But I have no means of trying, except by risking money, or reading > the DRM then it should work, but obviously if it doesn’t, then it ![]() ![]() > It probably depends on the DRM used by the vendors - if it knows about > I don’t know yet if I can install on it bought epub files from a It stores the books “on the Cloud” (why do we need another way to say “on-line”?) but also offers the option to store materially locally, so I can read off-line too. I’ve just loaded it on Chrome… not bad at all. At there’s now a browser based version that runs on either Chrome or Firefox. Not only was that horribly inconvenient, it also tied a lot of disk space for the extra OS.Įvery few months I’d check to see if a Linux version had become available, and this morning I finally saw an answer. Kindle for PC was great except that it wasn’t available for linux, and it didn’t run well on Wine, so I ended up booting into XP just to read books. Then, along came the Kindle, et al… OK except it was one more device (and charger, etc.) to pack. For many years finding room to pack the books I planned to read was a major problem… one I often ended up “solving” by buying books as needed at inflated prices at the airport news stands. Like most travellers I try to keep the number of items I pack to an absolute minimum.
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