Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: Netflix for books?

2011-08-03 Thread Doug Eastick
On 8/3/2011 12:38 PM, scruffy wrote: yeah, guess i should have been more specific...Adobe has an epub format that contains DRM so it can't be copied and will deactivate after the loan period has expired. this is what a lot of libraries are using and what Kindle does not yet support. google

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: Netflix for books?

2011-08-03 Thread scruffy
On Aug 3, 2011, at 12:20 PM, PGage wrote: > I have not used it yet, but I believe Kindle does support reading PDF > documents (I guess I associate that with the term "Adobe format" - but it may > be something different). yeah, guess i should have been more specific...Adobe has an epub format th

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: Netflix for books?

2011-08-03 Thread PGage
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:05 AM, scruffy wrote: > On Aug 2, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Dave Sikula wrote: > > > My mother-in-law (84 and with no tech savvy) is a voracious reader and > > apparently in the market for an e-reader. My wife asked me if I knew > > anything about ebook rental services (bookswim?

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: Netflix for books?

2011-08-03 Thread scruffy
On Aug 2, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Dave Sikula wrote: > My mother-in-law (84 and with no tech savvy) is a voracious reader and > apparently in the market for an e-reader. My wife asked me if I knew > anything about ebook rental services (bookswim?). I don't, but thought > I'd ask you all if you know of a

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: Netflix for books?

2011-08-03 Thread Jason Carpio
The most reliable and cheap book rental place will be the library. But seriously, is bookswim available on portable platforms? JCarpio On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Dave Sikula wrote: > My mother-in-law (84 and with no tech savvy) is a voracious reader and > apparently in the market for an e

[TV orNotTV] OT: Netflix for books?

2011-08-02 Thread Dave Sikula
My mother-in-law (84 and with no tech savvy) is a voracious reader and apparently in the market for an e-reader. My wife asked me if I knew anything about ebook rental services (bookswim?). I don't, but thought I'd ask you all if you know of any and if there is any clear winner between the Nook and