Borrowing an e-book involves a ridiculous number of steps: You must create a free Adobe account, download Adobe software onto your computer, start an account with your local library, connect up those two accounts, and finally
sideload the books onto the e-reader via USB.
And no need to
sideload the books onto your Kindle: if you win, I'll send you the codes to download the books directly from Amazon.
I now
sideload books onto my ereader via Calibre or easily access them via apps on my iPad, android phone and tablet.
Not exact matches
I use several
book stores and the public library from my PC and
sideload onto my kobo.
Buying an e-book from a website and
sideloading it
onto your Kindle will never be as easy as buying it from the Kindle store (though if the world's governments would take the eminently sensible step of legalizing jailbreaking, someone could develop a product that let Kindles easily access third - party stores on the obvious grounds that if you buy a Kindle, you still have the right to decide whose
books you'll read on it, otherwise you don't really own that Kindle).
Even longer answer: You can not access the play store through the kobo reader (in any meaningful way), but you can download epub
books from the play
book store, and then use Adobe Digital Editions to
sideload them
onto your kobo.
Anyone looking to buy
books then strip DRM and convert them so you can
sideload them
onto your reader of choice needs to download and install Calibre then google «Apprentice Alf» and follow the step - by - step instructions.
As you can see in the preview, I
sideloaded Julie Harper «s new
book, Reading Comprehension for Girls (she will be releasing it in a couple of weeks)
onto my Kindle Fire to help check the formatting.
Library
books have to be
sideloaded onto the Nook.