Can personal books be downloaded to android without converting to something else? How?
Currently personal books are not supported in the mobile platform... If you have Accordance you can always put them into user books but their Android software is only just under development now. The feature may come to Logos mobile but it is only being talked about with many issues holding it back right now.
-Dan
Paul:
It does seem like a natural idea, doesn't it? If I understand Dan correctly, other software developers are or on the verge of doing it, so it doesn't seem that it is a technical improbability on the level of McCoy rebuilding Spock's brain.
I think Dan meant another software developer has only just started developing an Android app. However, I don't have any inside knowledge about that.
technical improbability on the level of McCoy rebuilding Spock's brain.
Spock's Brain is one of my favorite Star Trek episodes ever, however to my knowledge the Federation didn't have to worry about Copyright issues.The technical issues are obviously solvable, but if Kirk realized his Ensigns were illegally scanning/digitizing copyrighted data and then uploading it to the Enterprise computer for the purpose of digitally distributing it to their mobile devices, thus turning the Enterprise into their own personal SS Botany Bay (er, I meant Pirate Bay), he wouldn't just put them in the brig but might have to pay heavy fines to the owners of that data.It may seem like a natural idea, but there is no way for Faithlife to determine whether "Personal Books" are unique un-copyrighted works.
I understand that there will always be copyright issues but why is that issue so restrictive on your android and not on your laptop?
I would also like to see the ability to import pdfs into Logos itself but that would probably be an issue of royalties as well as technical.
I can't claim to understand all the legal side but it seems to me that you could have at least 4 types of personal books: 1) you are the author, 2) you have full legal permission to the work 3) you bought a license to a non-drm book. 4) you bought a license to a drm book.
In 1-3 you have full rights to view the book in Logos and use it on your mobile devices surely?!
In 4, legally it depends where you live and the local law. However if the DRM has been broken before the book reaches the Logos software and if the Logos software is not distributing the book to many users but only the original user then I don't see how it can be a problem? It's no worse than having a personal book feature on desktop.
IMHO it is high time they started to make book licenses platform and software independent.
but if Kirk realized his Ensigns were illegally scanning/digitizing copyrighted data and then uploading it to the Enterprise computer
[:D]
In other words: "ain't ever gonna happen." Those who wait for it are like Pilot-Major Blackthorne repeatedly rebuilding his ship, while Lord Toranaga repeatedly burns it down.
Shaka, when the walls fell.
Maybe Logos is using the laptops as a test case to see who complains.
Not all PDFs have a text layer. That is they are just photos and will need OCR conversion to read the text. [[OCR: Optical Character Recognition - software that converts the pictures of letters into the digital codes that a word processor can use.]]
YOU Have rights to convert things that YOU own to other formats. What has not been tested in the courts is if YOU can get someone else to do it for you.
Have you checked the going price of eBooks recently? They want full list price. And most of the they that sell them want full list price for every device you use to read them.
