Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX’s Savior

Re:Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX’s Savior by falsestprophet on Saturday May 09, 2009 @04:07PM (#601355)

Just find the book you want in PDF form, upload it to your Kindle over USB, and you’ve got a perfectly readable and convenient textbook.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that students are just going to skip the $500 kindle part of this plan.

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Re:Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX’s Savior by jkincaid on Saturday May 09, 2009 @04:15PM (#601374)

I don't think so. You've been able to get PDF versions of many books (both textbooks and novels) for a few years. I've never met anyone who actually printed one out or read an entire book from their computer, save for maybe a leaked Harry Potter book.

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Re:Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX’s Savior by ramchip on Saturday May 09, 2009 @04:28PM (#601387)

As a student, I can say that the point isn't always to read the whole book: the kind of textbook you'd want in a PDF form tends to be large reference books which you can search quickly in a PDF reader. But I'm used to working and reading whole books on the screen, and believe it or not there are quite a few legal ones: for example I work with a few art books whose copyright has expired a long time ago, and I read a lot of research papers in PDF.

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Re:Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX’s Savior by randallsquared on Saturday May 09, 2009 @06:50PM (#601538)

I've read many entire books on my computer, mostly from Baen's free library.

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