Comments on: How to Extend the Due Date of Your Library eBook on the Kindle

By: valkay

valkay — Sun, 05 May 2013 11:59:46 +0000

I figured. To do this my first library checkout. I was reading the book but just needed a little extra time. My experience is that my wireless I swear got turned on automatically. I know it was off and I nor anyone else turned it on. I purposefully kept it off to finish the book. I also leave it off to avoid Amazon from archiving books I don’t want archived. The book was removed immediately. Does anyone know if Amazon or other entities can turn your wifi on your kindle. Don’t laugh. I have an older kindle and a kindle fire. The kindle fire is on. I also have the pc kindle and wifi is on there as well.

By: Cheri

Cheri — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 17:33:01 +0000

Does this system work for the iPad?

By: Michelle Schumacher

Michelle Schumacher — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:37:57 +0000

Jo, I have NT and only do library books (broke after buying the NT!). I have also been searching for ways to keep the 1000+book on Nook Tablet past the 14 days because I dont know anybody who could read a 1000+book in 14 days while doing normal things like driving school and sleeping (although sleep comes in second when I have a good book at hand). I was told by the librarian (yes at the public library locally) to simply NOT hook my Nook tablet to the PC after the 14 day deadline is up. Havent had to try it yet. Have not turned of wifi either but will take that precaution if close to deadline date. One last question – by “turning off nook” did you mean you put it to sleep or did you actually turn it off with power button and answer “yes” to the query of “do you want to turn off nook” that my NT asks before I fully power down NT.

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:25:24 +0000

I noticed this by accident when I returned a library book before I had finished it but it was still on my Kindle. I realized that I had not turned off my airplane mode on my Kindle DX (3G). Now I am finding that quite a few of the books I check out must be downloaded to my computer BEFORE transferring to my Kindle. It seems they do not disappear from my computer nor from my Kindle unless I turn off the airplane mode. I only read the books and am satisfied to return them once i am finished. One of the problems I have run across is not having enough time to read the books as they come in on reserve. I typically have the problem of everything coming in at once (just like regular books). Don’t have enough time in the day to read so many at one time, so I appreciate the extra time in some instances.

By: JonathanStrange

JonathanStrange — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:24:27 +0000

More importantly: how unethical is it? What penalties – if any – would be appropriate? If the Kindle could monitor its database and charge us overdue fines, would that be enough?

Now if someone were amassing a hundred Kindle library books on their device and then going permanently off-the-net and hiding in a cave in New Mexico, we’d have no choice but to send up the Predators and put Seal Team Six on standby.

Fortunately, everyone eventually turns their Kindle wifi on. Usually a day or two later.

By: heather

heather — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:11:45 +0000

I do this but feel guilty, because we are breaking the publisher agreement with library. is this ethically right according to copyright?

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E-books, Librarians, and Food « So Many Books — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:41:19 +0000

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By: Caitlin Cahill

Caitlin Cahill — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:47:55 +0000

I don’t see any reference to or endorsement by a library on this blog. Seems to me that Bobbi is just another bibliophile telling her online friends about a neat trick she discovered on her kindle.

Do you know what’s really wrong? Publishers treating eBooks like paper books, price-wise, but then essentially reposessing them from a library after a specified number of checkouts; preventing an eBook owner from selling/lending eBooks without limit, like she could a paper book; and selling out to one vendor, excluding other device owners from being able to read their books…shall I continue

By: Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:20:46 +0000

James,
I’m not sure why you’re so keen on vilifying me (and by extension libraries) you’re making huge leaps with your comments. As I’ve pointed out before, this would happen even if I had never written this post. It is happening right now on millions of devices across the country owned by people who have no idea that it is happening.

By: James Moushon

James Moushon — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:04:13 +0000

Actually I didn’t reference devices at all. I am referring to your comments about tricking the system so they can circumvent the rules of the access of titles.

You know “It is pretty easy to “extend” the due date of the library ebook you check out to your kindle, just turn your wireless connection off until you’re done with it.”

Overdrive and publishers are allowing your patrons access to a selected number of copies with a maximum about of time checkout allotted. With your approach you could conservable have 20 copies out at a time with 10 access copies paid for.