A few weeks ago, Pasquale Castaldo was waiting at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport for a delayed flight, when a man sitting across from him pulled out an Amazon Kindle book-reading device.
“Gee, maybe I should think about e-books myself,” Castaldo thought.
He didn’t have a Kindle, but he did have a BlackBerry. He pulled it out and looked for available applications. Sure enough, Barnes & Noble Inc. had just put up an e-reading program. Castaldo, 54, downloaded it, and within a minute, began reading Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”
As others are also discovering, the North Haven, Conn., banker found e-books quite accessible without a Kindle.
“The BlackBerry is always with me,” Castaldo said. “Rather than just sitting there, if I can fill that time by reading a good book, I might do that, in addition to doing the other things I might do, like reading e-mail and Twittering.”
ereader.com
ereader.com is one place to get ebooks if you have a Blackberry or iPhone / iPod Touch. (and several other platforms including PCs and Macs)
They have a very interesting DRM system. When you buy an ebook you can download it as many times as you want. You use your credit card number as an unlock code for the books. You can share books with family and friends that you are comfortable giving your credit card number to.
I originally bought some ebooks from them when I had a Palm Pilot. I now have an Ipod Touch. I downloaded the software for the touch and re downloaded the books that I previosly purchased. Used my unlock code and had access to my books on the new device.
Reading books on phone
Hi,
I have been reading books on my phone for several years. Right now I have a Windows Mobile phone where I use a program called Haali Reader. Also, the free PDF reader is nice although that one does not remember the page where I was last.
There is also a good Java based book reader which I used on my Sony Ericsson: ReadManiac.
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best regards,
Dennie