Anyone read ebooks?

[logosmonkey]

One other thing that I really didn't think of earlier; I use ebook replacements for all my RPG books. I have basically all of 3.5e D&D in PDF format and I use those near exclusively now. Same with a few other game books. That's actually the killer app for my iPad. Frees me up from lugging 10 or 12 books around to games.

Was it you that I was talking with about making a DM screen specifically for the iPad?

Not sure, could well have been.

[logosmonkey]

You know, I tried doing that, but I couldn't ever navigate them well enough for it to truly be a feasible replacement for the real books. Either I don't have the brain to handle it, or the ereader program was just too basic (this was four or five years ago) for that sort of reference.

It's much better now, in any pdf you can bookmark any page. You can jump to any specific page number and they match the physical books, so if I know what page treasure tables are on in the DM guide (132 I think) then I can jump there with two clicks. As fast if not faster than physical copies. For a specific character I can bookmark up all the pages that have powers/abilities I need to reference and quickly jump back and forth between them. Overall it's a very, very good experience. I use GoodReader for the iPad but pretty much any recent PDF reader will do the same things.

[Mongbert]

Can you buy 2nd hand e-books?

[logosmonkey]

Can you buy 2nd hand e-books?

Depends on the format. Epub you could conceivably buy second hand. Kindle allows you to loan a book to another kindle user for a month (I think it's a month...). I think Nook allows you to loan books as well. Pricing's a messed up part of this right now, the publishers haven't figured out that pricing them for ridiculous amounts (as much as the hard cover?? come the fuck on.) isn't helping anybody.

[chamber715]

Can you buy 2nd hand e-books?

Depends on the format. Epub you could conceivably buy second hand. Kindle allows you to loan a book to another kindle user for a month (I think it's a month...). I think Nook allows you to loan books as well. Pricing's a messed up part of this right now, the publishers haven't figured out that pricing them for ridiculous amounts (as much as the hard cover?? come the fuck on.) isn't helping anybody.

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Is there anything like DRM for the epubs? What's to stop you from keeping a copy of the file while selling a second hand copy?