Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th May 2009 18:55 UTC
With the success of the Kindle I and Kindle II still fresh in its memory, Amazon decided to take its line of e-ink digital ebook readers to the next level with the newly announced Kindle DX. The Kindle DX is basically a supersized Kindle II, but it comes with a number of interesting improvements.
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1) You can only buy kindlebooks from your Amazon account. No other retailer sells them.
Correct.
2) You can only read them on the kindle they are registered to.
3) This means you cannot either sell or lend them.
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Sell, no. But you can link up accounts and transfer books between kindles. Though only one person can actually access the book at a time. Pretty much like lending.
4) Can you move kindlebooks onto your PC, and if so what can you then do with them? You cannot, is that right, read them on it?
You can move them onto a computer, but there's really nothing to do with them there other than back them up.
5) Then we have non-Kindle open books. How do you transfer a Gutenberg or pdf book onto the Kindle? Is there a USB connection as with some of the other readers? Can you insert a memory card or stick and read what is on it? I recall reading that to get stuff onto it, you had to mail it to Amazon and have it converted to DRMd format and then get it mailed back. Is that true?
You can do it the email way, but you can also just toss a txt file onto the kindle yourself. Other formats, like doc, do have to have the processing done by amazon. There's the free service where they just email it back, and then you put it on the kindle yourself. For a small fee, I think a dime if I recall, they'll make it avaiable for download directly onto the kindle.
6) Finally there are competing DRM formats like the ones used by other vendors of ebooks. How many of these formats does Kindle read?
Just mobi, as far as I know. And it's not an official thing, just a hack that someone put together.
Depends on the person. Personally, I don't care where the books come from. Part of what's nice about the kindle is the integration with amazon. I like that I can actually browse for books on the kindle and buy them with one click.