Sunday, March 13, 2011

Technology Moving Fast for the Kindle...

So I am suddenly expanding the Kindle. First, there are the sites for lending books with Amazon. They allow you one loan per book. Not much. As usual, I learned about this by plunging in. I just signed up at http://www.booklending.com/ after reading praise of it, and tried to think of a possible recent book I’d like to read but not buy– for example, the kind of thing I’d borrow from a library, if I were a regular library goer. I decided to try WOLF HALL by Hilary Mantel, and the site said it was not available. Fine, so I forgot about it– and three days ago got an email saying it was waiting for me! Mercy. So now I’m hurriedly reading it before the 14 days are up. In order to be nice, I decided to loan the two books I’ve actually paid for– and found out that they are “nonlendable,” a decision the publisher makes.

There’s a lot of confusion right now among technology, profit taking, ownership, books as physical objects and books as reading experiences.

Next move, I read some more online and discoverd the existes of Calibre, an open source software that will translate e-pub or whatever for kindle (or just about anything to anything, actually). You are supposed to be able to have books emailed to your Kindle account, but why? It also loads directly to the device if attached to the computer, so I’ve translated my first book (just Calibre’s handbook) and downloaded. Cool.
This is all new and happening fast.

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