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Anyone know how to read Amazon downloaded books on the Nook??
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Mar 31, 2014 07:09PM
Yeah, I've got the app and the books don't have to be free. The app allows me to purchase amazon books, which are then transferred to my android device (nook HD*). The book stays in the app but it's there. I even subscribed to a magazine on amazon which was not available from bn. If bn gets rid of the app, I'll buy a kindle.
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Kara wrote: "Yeah, I've got the app and the books don't have to be free. The app allows me to purchase amazon books, which are then transferred to my android device (nook HD*). The book stays in the app but it'..."Yep - I do the same. My Interweave Knitting Magazine comes to me that way. it is really cool to have everything on my one, wonderful device!
Stephanie wrote: "I use the kindle app on my nook hd+... Works great!"That's what I did Stephanie. I love it!
Not sure but I think you can add kindle for android to a nook tablet. just accept downloads from 3rd party in settings and you can add kindle for android.
If you have a Nook HD you can use the kindle app but if you have a ST you can't. The only way you can read Kindle books is to convert them by using a program like Calibre and only if they have no DRM. There are programs out there to remove the DRM but they are illegal in the US which leads to other discussions.
I love Ebooks, you can hold the weightiest tome with one hand and flip pages with a tap, turn the light low to not disturb anyone around you, carry your own personal library of Alexandria around with you, or at least the bits we have left.How they have been made inferior to a good paper book, aside from the beauty, feel and smell of "real" books is the DRM.
You buy a book, you can read it, lend it, really good ones you keep giving your copy away and buying a new one, you may share it however the hell you like, sell it at a garage sale for $0.25, make notes in the margins, use it as a coaster or a doorstop, bequeath it to someone you love, and the format is not going to be changed on you and/or deleted when the next model comes out.
New business model be damned, if Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 teaches us anything, then jailbreak the hell out of your books! I don't care what format it's in. Buy a book, get it as a gift or as Abbie Hoffman's classic "Steal This Book" plainly states, acquire it by extralegal means and by god, it's YOURS. And of course, read it.
Call me a hide-bound traditionalist, but these captains of industry with their DRM I call revisionist swine and I cheerfully proffer my fundament that they may kiss it.
There are Calibre add-ons that require the credit card you use to purchase NK books to decrypt the DRM hash added when you "buy" some ebooks. Probably not the best idea in the world to casually put a CC number out into the wild, but a workaround might be to use a disposable/rechargable low dollar card for your purchases.
I wanted to share some books long distance with a friend who was dying, but they were DRM'ed and I did not have the time to extract, crack, fold spindle etc, so I sent her some art, which was appreciated.
IMHO we are duty bound to denounce DRM at every turn and take any action we see fit to keep an ebook as true to the form and utilitarianism of a paper book as we can.
TL,DR- Paper books have a wonderful smell, DRM is tainted by the bog of eternal stench.
HA! I am having a really bad morning, but when I opened your note, it made me grin. Thank you for that, and I couldn't agree more!
It it's the tablet type, download the Kindle app.
