Ebooks

E-Reading Challenge VII: The Reader Lives! & Final Thoughts

After a surprisingly difficult series of support calls and emails, the Reader is working again.* I can buy books again and manage my library of Sony-purchased titles to my heart’s content. But it’s time for me to pass the Reader on to another BookNet staff member who will, after mocking the books I’ve left on the device, share their own thoughts of the experience.

BookNet Canada E-Reading Challenge Part V: Never a Borrower nor a Lender Be...

On the way home, I’m telling a friend about the book I’m reading. When I end my 30-second review, I catch myself. I usually wrap up any enthusing about a book with I can lend it to you when I’m done… I can’t lend this to anyone. My Special Topics in Calamity Physics is in Sony’s proprietary format. If had some other kind of e-ink device, they couldn’t read it. Even if they had a Reader, I couldn’t lend it to them. I would be breaking the law, violating the license that goes along with the book.