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Re: [LUG] Ebook readers

 

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:36:38AM +0100, George Parker wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback everyone.  For my purposes just now it looks
> like the Kindle is the answer.  Especially as I've really looked at
> Amazons blurb now and it says I can put the books on my PC using
> something called WhisperSync.  The only slight nag is the comment in
> Full Circle "Any e-book you buy from Amazon will work only on a
> Kindle or on Amazon's Kindle software."  You can't get much more
> closed than that!
> 

You can but Amazon say they wont

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10290047-56.html
http://seattlest.com/2009/07/17/amazons_kindle--now_with_new_take-b.php

etc etc etc


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