Willow ,'Chosen'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Erin: You can probably find a way to read most any book out there on an iPod touch. E-mail me with details about what formats you have (and from what stores) and I can probably help you convert them.
It may require some technically-illegal DRM stripping, but I feel no ethical dilemma removing DRM so that you can read it on your current device. I strip all my Kindle books for future devices, and I am completely willing to announce it.
Gris, I'll do that! That would be great. I wouldn't feel bad about it; I mean, I bought the books and it's not like I'm gonna be giving 'em away. I just want to be able to read them away from my desktop.
My library finally has iPod compatible audiobooks. But they list that as a separate category from their main list, which is kind of annoying.
But they have a different format.
A lot of thsoe separtae lsst are because no one wants to play nice.
How ever, searching by authour or title in the catalog should give you al the formats a book is avalible in
But they have a different format.
I know--that's the annoying part. It's a small slice of what they have available.
cost was the factor
Well, I'm glad they resolved that. They had one format for the longest time. Now they can go to PC, Mac, iPod, MP3, WMA, and burn to CD (yeah, I know some of those overlap).
It is a good thing . Now, we get to see who wins.
I'll consider an eReader when I can get any book I want--old or new--on it and there's no way for the seller to take the book back. That whole 1984 think with the Kindle freaked me out.
Whenever my MiL asks my advice on formats I've said "get the most open one you're allowed - people who want to steal library ebooks will do it regardless of format, and people who don't just want to be able to read on their own device."
One of my favorite long-term possible benefits of e-readers is the end of "out of print". I can't tell you how long it took me to find a readable copy of "The Many-Colored Land" by Julian May back in high school. Noe, of course, I could probably find it online quite easily, but I don't love buying used books online.