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It allows you to purchase Kindle books
and
read them on your PC. Since I don’t have any Kindle books, I
don’t
know what the experience looks like, but my assumption is that they have a
layout that is more like reading a book than scrolling on a
screen. Also, you cannot get many books in a
pure
PDF, so this would allow you to have electronic access to books that would
otherwise not be accessible electronically. I think this is a step in the right
direction, but just wait and see what happens over the next two
years!
Ebooks are going to explode and a standard format will emerge (I hope), and
then the sky is the limit! Antoinette Verdone, MSBME,
ATP Assistive Technology
Specialist The ALS Association, Greater
42 Broadway, Phone: 212-720-3054 Fax: 212-619-7409 Email: xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx "One cannot consent to creep when
one
has the impulse to soar" -- Helen
Keller From:
xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Taylor, Barry Can someone tell me
what
I’m missing here? What does Kindle PC give you that Adobe or
similar won’t do? Barry -----Original Message----- Yeah, it's finally here. Consumers can read a
Kindle on their PC--no Kindle unit required. Reeading is often the #1 question I get
asked, so if the user has a computer that we can make accessible if they
don't
have hand function, they can now still read Kindle
books. Thanks, Alisa Alisa
Brownlee, ATP Clinical
Manager, Assistive Technology Services ALS (Lou
Gehrig's Disease) Association National Office and Greater Direct
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