Well, I just wanted to make an account w/ B & N, online, so that I can buy the PC ebooks, but I wanted to be able to take them to my laptop. However, with my laptop, the internet is not working. I was wondering if when i buy the ebook, will i download

A: I just googled it and yes you need to have an internet connection in order for this thing to work.

Pew study: E-readers have caught on quickly

Those figures may not surprise anyone who has ridden a train or been on a plane recently, visited a campus, or hung out in a public space. But Pew, whose focus on e-reading is part of a broader look at how technology is tearing away at and reweaving so much of the modern social and intellectual fabric, is documenting trends that may herald profound change - and large challenges - for society, according to Lee Rainie, director of the Internet project.

"The book has been the fundamental unit of transmitting knowledge for half a millennium," Rainie said.

Some of Pew's more remarkable statistics:

â ¢ The fraction of people who owned an e-reader, and the fraction who owned a tablet, both nearly doubled over the recent holiday season, from 10 percent in December to 19 percent in January.

â ¢?E-book readers say they are reading more - an average of 24 books during the last 12 months, compared with 15 books for non-electronic readers.

â ¢ Specialized devices aren't the only place people read e-books or other long-form writing, such as magazine articles. Using its broadest definition of electronic content, Pew says about 43 percent of Americans read digital content during the last year on an e-reader, tablet, cell phone, or computer.

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

Hacked Nook Touch now runs the Kindle app (video) | The Digital Reader

Mike Cane beat me to this one, but given that he had to be up at 3am to do it, I really have no problem with that.

You’re looking at the first Nook Touch to be hacked and run the Amazon Kindle app. It’s nowhere near ready for the average user, and even when it is I’m not sure you’d want it. This app has been tweaked to look good on an LCD screen and frankly the animation is almost painful to watch on the NT. I kinda wanted the NT as an E-ink Android tablet, but as I watch this video I think I’ve changed my mind.

But you have to admit that this a rather odd use of a $139 ebook reader.

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