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  1. 08-12-2009, 02:56 PM #1
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    Question E-Book Help

    Hello Hexites -

    I'm looking at getting my Dad a subscription for an E-Book site. He's away at sea for long spells and often exhausts the literary supplies on the boat. He has a laptop with a nice 17" screen so I think that some kind of subscription for a site that allows him to download texts would be a good idea for a Christmas present.

    Anyone have any suggestions?

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  2. 08-12-2009, 06:11 PM #2
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    Re: E-Book Help

    I believe Amazon allow it?
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    Re: E-Book Help

    e-book readers are not quite there yet IMO. There isn't enough out there to warrant it really. If a reader came with wifi or the ability to link to a phone via bluetooth so you can login to say Amazon and download new books on the move, that would be ingenious.

    Also if the newspapers offered it (even for a subscription cost) that would be great as well. Reduce rubbish and litter. I hate getting onto a tube late at night and I have to fudge around copies of the Lite or whatever it is.
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    Re: E-Book Help

    Zinio do magazine subscriptions in electronic form IIRC, I had a few free trials a while ago, proprietary format though
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stringent View Post
    If a reader came with wifi or the ability to link to a phone via bluetooth so you can login to say Amazon and download new books on the move, that would be ingenious.
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    Re: E-Book Help

    Quote Originally Posted by Stringent View Post
    e-book readers are not quite there yet IMO. There isn't enough out there to warrant it really. If a reader came with wifi or the ability to link to a phone via bluetooth so you can login to say Amazon and download new books on the move, that would be ingenious.

    Also if the newspapers offered it (even for a subscription cost) that would be great as well. Reduce rubbish and litter. I hate getting onto a tube late at night and I have to fudge around copies of the Lite or whatever it is.
    It's not an e-reader I'm looking for - more a website that allows subcriptions. That way my dad can download a book (in pdf or whatever) to his laptop.

    I will check out Amazon, thanks for the suggestion.
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    Re: E-Book Help

    Quote Originally Posted by Lucio View Post
    Ahem http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23187
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