Grampa Don
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If I can toss in a question: are e-readers and e-books interchangeable, or can you only use products from the same company?
Example: can you use an Amazon Kindle for a Barnes&Noble e-book, etc.
Personally I prefer regular books, but not knowing if all e-books are compatible with all e-readers is another reason I haven't tried this modern approach.
No, they are not interchangeable. Amazon e-books will only read the amazon format. Which means that you either have to get books from Amazon or do a conversion with a program like Calibre. Many books have DRM (digital rights management) which makes conversion difficult. There are a lot of free older titles available on Project Gutenberg that are in the Amazon format.
The other format is called epub. That's the one that is used by the Barnes & Noble readers and most tablets. Your library may loan books in one or both formats.
Don