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New Kindle lending program

12/31/2010 – 11:06 am

Find about it here:
http://www.amazon.com/kindle-lending
Though it will only be as successful as publishers willing to offer the service.

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Getting ebooks on a Kindle

12/31/2010 – 11:04 am

There are at least three ways to do this:
1. Buy a book from Amazon. Duh.
2. Email something to your Kindle, and let Amazon automatically convert it to a pdf for you. But note: they’ll charge you for it. Here’s how.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200140600
3. Use Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/), and plug your Kindle into your computer. Then you can drag all [...]

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Check out our “how to” guides

12/30/2010 – 8:39 am

You’ll find them here:
http://douglascountylibraries.org/content/downloading-ebook-eaudiobook-help

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