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14 years ago

I guess this is the first time that I tried to get an e-book from Amazon, thought I'd done it before. I have a Pandigital; when I order the e-book, a free one, it asks for my Kindle number. What's the deal? Is there a way around it or what am I doing wrong. Thanks!

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grandms
14 years ago
Amazon books are for Kindle readers. For books for Pandigital, go to Barnes and Noble. If you have Kindle for PC, you can download books from Amazon. But you must have some form of Kindle to get e-books from Amazon.

Barnes and Noble has lots of free books, too. The ones for their Nook reader are the ones that work on Pandigital.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
14 years ago
yes Casi the pandigital takes the epub format it can not read the kindle format unless of course you have installed the kindle android app onto the pandigital.

anytime you get any book from amazon you have to use your amazon account so you have to be logged into your amazon account that is what it is asking for , even though the book is free it will go through the transaction just like you are buying it but the price will be zero, they will also email you to your associated email and provide the "bill" copy.

You can use a program like calibre to change the format from kindle to epub and use it that way. Many times barnes and noble have the same free books as amazon but they are already in epub format.
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you can read them anytime you just choose the book in your kindle library and tell it to put it on your kindle for android app then it is on your device to read at any time. to use barnes and noble online you need to have an account set up that just means a user name and password but they do ask that you put a credit card number on file with them so that if you want to purchase a book it will be able to do that automatically, anytime you get a book even a free one you go through the process just like if you were buying it, only the total is zero, and it gets put in your nook library, you can then access it with your nook reader app just like you do kindle and download it to your device. Aldiko has an area where it lets you put in a url address for where you want to get books from and it also contains list of book sources you can just choose to go to, but what I do is anytime I find a book I want (I always get epub format) I download the book to my pc, I keep a folder on it that I put all my ebooks in, then I take the sd card that I use for the device put it into my card reader and copy my books from that folder into the sd card. When I put the sd card into the device Aldiko can access it and I can read the books. On the aldiko home screen there is an sd card icon you click that find the folder that has your books in it, sometimes it is in the ebooks folder, in my recent one it was in the external folder, I just click through the folders till I find the books, put a check mark in front of the book you want to read or you can do all of them and it will say move to Aldiko or something like that. You just leave the SD card in the device. I am not sure about your gift card. how that would work you may have to do it from your pc?? never tried that. Read eBooks On Android Using Aldiko Book Reader this is a little video on how to use one of the various book stores that aldiko can access for you Downloading eBooks to Aldiko from BooksOnBoard one thing I like is that when reading to adjust the brightness of the screen just slide you finger up and down along the left edge it will change the brightness, I always read in the night read mode it is just easier for me to see and especially when reading in bed. feel free to ask anything you need help with. I am still learning new things daily too. In fact I just downloaded that FBreader yesterday to give it a try. If you do not like the browser on your device there are some very good ones you can try out, Dolphin, Opera mini, firefox, and soon there will be a chrome version, several others too. you can add them to try them then delete them if you don't like it, you will be given the choice of which browser to use each time you need to use it. Dolphin is very slick and has the tabs.
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wow sorry I had never seen that I was asked a question and never answered it. I bought my pandigital novel at bed bath and beyond they can be bought at many locations which are listed on their website including Radio Shack and Kohl's. Mine ran me right at $100 with their 20% off coupon and a rebate. The one I have is the 7" white tablet. It is a full android tablet now with their latest update so you can access apps from the android market, you can surf, email, play your music, watch videos, youtube etc, pretty much everything you can do on a laptop. If you are familiar with any of the android phones it is very similar. I thought if I was going to pay over a hundred dollars for something I wanted it to do as much as possible not just be an ereader which is why I went with this PDN. The ereader part is excellent also and since you can now use android apps you can use the kindle app to read kindle books and the nook app, lots of ereader apps are available so you can choose the one you like best gives you lots of flexibility. It of course does have wifi connectivity which works great. We have had several very long threads about the PDN and ereaders over on the computer help forum, you can search the topic there and find much more. There are a lot of people on GW that got Pandigitals too. the lookbook reader I got at CVS pharmacy when they had them on for $49 it only does ereader functions and does color and have wifi and is linked with the kobo bookstore. http://www.pandigital.net/
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casi
Original Author
14 years ago
Yes, I use B & N for most of my books, but I did find a free one on Amazon that I wanted. How hard would that "calibre" thing for me to do? I have an Amazon acct., but it asked me for my Kindle number.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
14 years ago
calibre User Manual

Get calibre

as to kindle number I don't know I have downloaded many books from amazon for my kindle for pc and it never asked for any kindle number, it did ask to which one I wanted to send it to since I have 3 computers with kindle for pc on them. You do have to have the kindle app on something so it can send it to that, either on your pc or pandigital or something it sends it to the actual unit where the app is.
bob414
14 years ago
If you have Kindled for PC Amazon knows it and does not ask for a number (cookie?). It's free so go ahead and download it then you can get the book.
casi
Original Author
14 years ago
I don't have the kindle for PC app, so since I was wanting to purchase a book it expected that I had a regular Kindle, is what I'm suspecting. Enough of that, as I have my laptop here with me in Calif (visiting), I think that is what I'll do..download the kindle app and put it on my laptop. Don't know why I didn't think of that. A little off topic, Raven, but last night I had a scare....plugged my Pandigital in, as it was getting low, I guess I must have turned it off, then changed my mind and turned it back on and all my books and photos were gone!! I turned it off, turned it back on and they were back. I'm away from home, but a definite reminder that I need to back up my e-books when I get home.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
14 years ago
Yes I have all of mine on my SD card so if anything happens to the pandigital all my books are safe, I move the SD card between my various e-readers.

Usually pushing that reset button with a paper clip will do the trick if that happens again.

Yes put the app on your laptop then save the book to there and then you can have access to it to use calibre should you want to change the format to epub
casi
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks Raven! I did bring my paper clip with me, in case I had trouble on the plane! I loaded a ton of pictures before coming out here and I actually had to do the reset after that. Don't know how much it can hold!

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