A girl in my office apparently has a loved one that has one of those e-book things known as a Kindle. Her question is this: if she buys an ebook gift card from Barnes & Noble, will she be able to use it to purchase ebooks to read on her new Kindle?
My wife has a Kindle and loves it. I'm still old school, love the smell of a new book. Barnes and Noble does not sell Kindle ebooks Kindle is an Amazon ereader and only supported by Amazon, i believe. Barnes and Noble offers 'The Nook' ereader, which i know little about. Sony also has an ereader. I'm fairly certain that the different ereaders are not compatible.
Gotta order the books through Amazon. Many of the books I want to read aren't offered for Kindle but it is quite handy. It's easy to use.
Can someone explain the appeal of this to me? There has to be a feature that makes it better than an actual book, but this thread is the first I've heard of these devices. I guess I'm getting old.
I have an ebook reader on my droid. I read in bed with the lights out, and I can read while waiting in Dr's office. Ebooks are screwed up however in that there are more formats than VAN CAMP has pork 'n beans. Even the programs that say they convert, don't do a very good job. If you want a Kindle, buy from Amazon, if you want to buy from B&N by their reader or use they software. You have both vendor proprietary poop going on as well as copywrite protection stuff going on. Kind of VHS/BETA on steroids. I am sure it will settle down eventually, but right now it is a mess. As to why the attraction over a real book, not sure! Other than, if on a phone, like mine, you do not have to carry a book around to read. hwr
right. this person above has seen people reading regular books while driving and made up the kindle part. urban legends are always updated to reflect the latest technology. anyways, a pal of mine just got a kindle and he gave me his sony reader. i am pretty psyched i guess. fascinating fact: the library will "loan" you ebooks. they expire after a while and you cannot read them. you dont have to go to the library or anything. this seems tremendously disruptive to the publishing industry. also, should di buy a kindle?
