In Case You Didn't Know

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In the midst of several new purchases and decisions, I'm capturing what I've learned about eBooks and e readers.  There's good stuff and bad stuff.  Here's the good stuff.

1. The typical e reader can hold a TON of books.  Depending on the size of the books and the storage on the e reader, maybe thousands of books, in less space than a single hardcover

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Nick Knack Nook Book

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Abby reads all the time, 95% from her Kindle Fire.

You can have it all

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Calibre is an free and open-source ebook organizer for all OS's out there. It has many plugins, official and not so official, that can take care of your encryption worries. I've purchased a kindle touch for my mother and change her ebooks to epub format for safe keeping. My own nook ebooks I also run through. This is legal as long as it's never redistributed and I keep both the encrypted and de-encrypted copies (according to the most recent readings of the millenium copyright act) For my android devices, I like to use the Aldiko reader which is also free. It has some bells and whistles that I use; font smoothing, night mode, auto-paging, etc. The kindle e-ink devices can't be anything other than a reader. But the nook touch can be jail-brokened into a gingerbread android tablet, giving you a two for one deal. Kindle Fire and Nook Color can also be easily turned into full-android tablets. With any jailbreaking, you are voiding your warranty. But since it can all be reversed with a factory default, why worry.