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.

the lookbook is darn near the exact same thing as the sharper image Literati, same company makes them. We LOVE ours, this was my husbands first ereader and he never puts it down now. Yes you can read while it is plugged in. Battery last several hours it depends on useage of course and you want to keep the wifi turned off if not using it to download because the wifi uses up the batter faster. It does have the black with white text for night reading. I does use epub format books so yes you can get library books with it using over drive, but I have not done that. I generally just use the SD memory card, which I bought, and load the books that I saved to my pc right to the SD card and then put it in the lookbook and read them that way. The internal memory is a nice size but I find it much easier just to keep all my books in a folder on my pc then just move them to the SD card and that way I can use that SD card on any of my devices that use an SD card. My pandigital novel also uses SD card and epub so I move the card between the 2 and my husband and I can swap out cards too. You can get them right to your lookbook from the kobo store, but you do have to set up your kobo account and enter that info. I have done several of their free books that way. But you will need to keep the wifi on for doing that part. My main problem is that I am so used to using touch screen devices I keep trying to flip the pages on the screen instead of touching the button LOL How To Get Free eBooks From Libraries Using Overdrive you can get good free books at www.feedbooks.com just find one you want and select the epub format, download it to your pc (I created a new folder on my desktop for books) save it to your desired location. Then using a memory card reader (you may have one built into your pc or you may need to pick one up at walmart or somewhere they are quite cheap, stick the SD card into the reader that is plugged into the usb port of your pc and you can either just drag the book from the folder to the SD card icon or you can right click on the book and choose to copy to and then select the SD card. Once done loading up the SD card go to the bar down by your clock and find the safely remove icon and select that to safely remove your reader and card from the pc. That is it very very simple to do. I have to go look at mine I think the night read selection is in the display section of the menu. Also you can go to their website and find the manuals and stuff there too. HELPFUL TOOLS this is the thread we had over on Computer help about it. Lookbook ereader $49 at CVS again for under $50 to me it is a deal. I would not have paid the $100 or more price it was originally.

you don't even have to do any of that anymore they now come already flashed with the latest firmware update that makes it a fully functional android tablet and you have access to the android market. They have really made big steps with the PDN and keeping them updated. This is a very good site for info that I visit often. on this page go down to the part I have linked to and you can find some good suggestions for apps you would want. Get Started With Some Apps congrats on a great deal! for any interested Amazon has the 7" white tablet PDN for $89 it is labeled re-manufactured, that is likely due to these units being opened to reflash them to the latest version of the tablet. PanDigital 72-70FW 7-Inch Tablet Computer - White

I name mine my Pandigital is ANDI for obvious reasons. My sylvania is sylvia. My lookbook is I can not reacall if I named it or not but my husband has one exactly like it so I have put a pink band around the cover so we can spot the difference easily. In some of the post on computer help others have mentioned the names for theirs. My friend named her Kindle Ken. by the way anyone with Kindles I was just at Tuesday Morning and they had some fabulous deals on leather covers I bought one in hot pink for $14 I am giving it to my sister for hers. Unfortunately none they had would fit my sylvania which is the only one I have that would need one. They also had the type that actually hook in to the side of the Kindle like the original ones did. They are by M-Edge. Other than that in general I call them my Readers