I've tried and have yet to find a good conversion.
The nook and Sony's readers support ePUB which is a standard format. Lots of free books are available from various places in ePUB. Amazon really only wants you reading Kindle book on a Kindle, so like someone else said, they've DRMd it out the wazoo. For that reason, I shunned the Kindle. That, and the wasted space of the physical keyboard. I don't need it ever, so why have it there on the device all the time. The nook is a touchscreen keyboard similar (though not as good) to the iPhone's.
The nook and Sony's readers support ePUB which is a standard format. Lots of free books are available from various places in ePUB. Amazon really only wants you reading Kindle book on a Kindle, so like someone else said, they've DRMd it out the wazoo. For that reason, I shunned the Kindle. That, and the wasted space of the physical keyboard. I don't need it ever, so why have it there on the device all the time. The nook is a touchscreen keyboard similar (though not as good) to the iPhone's.
Most of the free books I run across are available in multiple formats, not just ePUB. Where are you finding the books that are ePUB only?
The DRM on the Kindle format is one of the reasons why I've still yet to buy a lot of books from them. The vast majority of my books are the free offers they have. I don't want to spend so much money replacing my library with Kindle books, and a few years down the line, have my entire collection become obsolete. So while I love my Kindle, I hate the DRM on it.
And I'm horrible at using touchscreens, so I actually prefer the physical keyboard.
$140.00 Kindle
- 29/07/2010 04:02:42 AM
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They're not striking at the iPad...the two are in a different league
- 29/07/2010 04:51:23 AM
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Why would anyone buy a Kindle instead of an iPad?
- 29/07/2010 04:22:17 PM
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Ok, so, my question about all these readers...
- 29/07/2010 09:10:38 AM
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well.
- 29/07/2010 10:00:55 AM
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On converting: depends on what you're converting from and to.
- 29/07/2010 10:11:50 AM
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I am trying to make the same decison
- 29/07/2010 01:27:44 PM
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Some answers (Now with NOOK info)
- 29/07/2010 04:15:53 PM
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Some information about more than the Kindle:
- 29/07/2010 06:47:14 PM
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Kindle books don't convert to ePUB well
- 29/07/2010 06:59:16 PM
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Re: Kindle books don't convert to ePUB well
- 29/07/2010 07:16:32 PM
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Some good links for you: (And why I'm going to get a NOOK)
- 29/07/2010 06:48:54 PM
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e-books from the library. I had forgotten about that
- 30/07/2010 05:12:05 PM
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I believe they're mostly ePub, but probably some PDF-type files too *NM*
- 31/07/2010 01:49:04 AM
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The main question I ask myself is Where am I going to get ebooks from?
- 30/07/2010 01:06:41 PM
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Have you checked out google books and other similar non-bookstore sites? *NM*
- 30/07/2010 01:40:36 PM
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Thanks