No, there is no total solution, but the Kindle store still holds the
largest selection and, though I haven't bought in yet, I find it
interesting more for obscure older titles than for new titles. Titles
that I had given up on ever having in an accessible format, even some
that have been out of print are popping up in Kindle format.
Regards,
Chris
At 01:32 PM 1/19/2011, Chris Hill wrote:
I'm sure there are things on kindle that aren't available elsewhere,
but it is no panasea. Many new books I read reviews of never make
it to kindle either.
On 1/19/2011 12:57, Mary Otten wrote:
No, the Kindle is not at all the same as the specialized devices that
you mentioned. It lets you read any of the books you can find in the
Amazon.com kindle store. Sure, there will be some overlap between,
say,k bookshare and Kindle, and you can read bookshare books on the
Stream or BookSense. But there are literally hundreds of thousands of
commercially available books through the Kindle store that are not
accessibly available elsewhere witnout you, the user, having to obtain
and scan them. Not a big deal if all you want are the latest best
sellers. But for back list or more unusual titles that don't find their
way onto audible or NLS etc, Kindle is there. From looking at the help
documentation, it is clear that this application doesn't allow the
level of granulatiry in navigation that one might want, e.g. word by
word or spelling a word. But it certainly looks like a step in the
right direction.
Mary
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