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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Talk to me about Kindle and EPub format...
I read that as of April 20th, Amazon and Overdrive (the digital content provider for my public library) are "teaming up" to make it possible to read library books on a Kindle. The timeline for this is "later this year." Anyway, I was wondering if any of you know anything about this, or how I might be able to read one Adobe Digital Editions (ePub) book on a Kindle before then... Is there a way to do it besides stripping the DRM?
Also, it seems that the major selling point of the Nook is that you can borrow/lend books and use public library ebooks... once Kindle and Overdrive get their partnership arranged, why would anyone prefer a Nook over the Kindle?
Just curious. Thanks!! :-)
Re: Talk to me about Kindle and EPub format...
I am not aware of a way that you can read an ePub book on a Kindle without stripping the DRM. You may want to ask on the Nest Book Club board, though.
As for your other question - yes, the library book feature is a big draw for some people, but a lot of people prefer the look and feel of the Nook over the Kindle, and like that their eReader is associated with a brick & mortar store or otherwise have loyalty to B&N over Amazon. It's just a preference. Just like I bought a Kindle because I liked it better despite the lack of library books (at the time).
Good to know. I haven't quite taken the plunge into an ebook reader yet, but I think I'm leaning toward the Kindle, and for me, that's the one drawback - not being able to read the library's epub format (however, I CAN read them on my iPhone). So... I may be waiting until they get that whole thing figured out. ;-)
Do you use Calibre at all? Can you tell me anything about it?
I use Calibre to organize and convert book files types for my Kindle. It's super easy to use. Anything specific you wanted to know?