Re: Seecondhand e-books : Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:48 pm  

Another eBook lending scheme is http://booklending.com/ I haven't used it and its American so not sure if it works outside of the USA (licences and all that), and it seems to be an Amazon business and heavily promotes Kindle ownership so not sure if it allows other formats - seems to work on the principle that when you buy a book for kindle from Amazon they allow one free loan of 14 days to another kindle device. I was going to join but having read the terms & stuff its just easier for me to use Leeds City Libraries.

Another eBook lending scheme is http://booklending.com/ I haven't used it and its American so not sure if it works outside of the USA (licences and all that), and it seems to be an Amazon business and heavily promotes Kindle ownership so not sure if it allows other formats - seems to work on the principle that when you buy a book for kindle from Amazon they allow one free loan of 14 days to another kindle device. I was going to join but having read the terms & stuff its just easier for me to use Leeds City Libraries.

Re: Seecondhand e-books : Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:19 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Unless you mean just the ink, and the physical paper it's printed on, you don't with a paper book either. An e-book is just a different type of display hardware to a paper book.

When you own a paper book though its harder for it to be 'stolen' by the publisher. Amazon can delete books from your kindle. It happened a few years ago, ironically to 1984 by George Orwell. There was some copyright dispute with the publisher and Amazon deleted paid for material from peoples kindles.

Re: Seecondhand e-books : Wed Dec 05, 2012 12:35 am  

As I do most of my reading in the bath I much prefer good old fashioned books. I dont think you could dry out a kindle on the radiator very well after you have dropped it in the water. If push does come to shove it only costs a few quid to replace a book compared to £70 for a Kindle and you only lose the one book at a time, not half your library.

Re: Seecondhand e-books : Wed Dec 05, 2012 5:25 pm  

I like my washing machine, but you just can't beat the feel and smell of taking your dirty clothes down to the stream and rubbing them on a rock.

Re: Seecondhand e-books : Thu Dec 06, 2012 1:50 pm  

Rock God X wrote:

I like my washing machine, but you just can't beat the feel and smell of taking your dirty clothes down to the stream and rubbing them on a rock.

Do you then strategically place your underpants on said rock to dry using natural solar rays or do you bang them all in your tumble-dryer?