Comment of the Day: Sync Kindle With iPhone
Our fourth daily Comments Competition winner is Chuck Lawson, for his comment on our post Is the iPhone the Ultimate eBook Reader?. Congratulations Chuck, you've won a $30 Amazon voucher, courtesy of our competition sponsors AdaptiveBlue and their Amazon WishList Widget. Chuck noted that the Kindle is better for eBooks, but the iPhone is always with him. So why not enable syncing between the two? He wrote:
"I've had both since the first day they were out (I'm a gadget junkie, I guess :-), and I like them both a lot.
The Kindle is a great reading experience; I've probably gone through 30 - 40 books on it already. Given a choice between the two devices, if I'm sitting down to ready, I'd rather read on the Kindle.
On the other hand, the iPhone is always with me, and the Kindle isn't.
What would be really slick would be if the iPhone and Kindle would both support Mobipocket format books (which is also the Kindle's native format), and iTunes could be used to sync both devices, keeping "last read" pointers in the same way it does with audiobooks and podcasts now.
That way you could sit down with either device, and pick up where you left off.
Doubt we'll ever see it, but it'd be terrific if it happened."
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I read books in Palm, they are the best, they occupy minimum space and are good to read. This site http://www.cmadras.com has 1,000 of free classic books in Palm, .pdb format. Soon iPhone will have their own format, but too many DRM options will confuse the readers, they should follow one universal format, so we can read in all the devices we have.
The whole point of DRM is to make you buy multiple copies -- one for each supported device. What a ripoff. I don't mind paying once for an individual title, but draw the line at paying more than once. And they do everything to make you do this. Won't allow you to transfer it to another Kindle, to your computer, or to print it.
In Europe, the EUC Common Market is considering outlawing the use of DRM on anything sold within their boundries. Our own legislatures should do the same. That's why we have world-wide standardized copyright laws. To do more than covered under copyrights should be prohibited, and declared unenforceable by the courts. Then our clever hackers can peel the DRM cover off everything and make things like they should have been in the first place. But don't wait for publishers to do that -- they'll never do it.
Charles Wilkes, San Jose, Calif.