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As a matter of fact, you can kill several birds with one stone simply by buying one of the recent Android phones. Google is really on to something here, and the growth potential of Android is simply phenomenal. When those Android tablets get moving at Kmart for $100... Whoops, there goes that Amazon Digital eBook business model.

Attention Kmart shoppers: $149 Android tablet on aisle 5 : The Android OS isn't just powering high end smartphones, it also runs barebones tablets sold at Kmart for the price of an iPod nano.

Think about this! Hundreds of thousands of titles freely and legally downloadable from your local public library to play on your $150 tablet with standard ports, HD video, the whole 9 yards, or maybe just on your cell phone. Android can scale pretty high in the capability department and reach rather low in the price category as well.

NY'ers, check this out from your NYC Public Libraries:

These books use DRM protection administered by Overdrive. Guess what platforms they won't play on (okay, I'll spoil it for you - the two front runners in the space - Apple's iPAd and Amazon's Kindle!). Of course you can always pick up one of those Android phones, or even a Microsoft Windows 7 phone...

DRM-protected Adobe® EPUB & PDF eBooks work with most computers…
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DRM-protected Adobe EPUB & PDF eBooks work with these devices…

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