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Hi Guys
I am thinking of buying some E books and buy some movies
that you download.
Before buying, Question is can I copy these to an external hard drive
to keep memory space on me lap top.
Or is there any other ways of storing purchased books and films.
Files are files, I don't see why not (randomness like iTunes notwithstanding).
Books aren't exactly large though. Can get a couple of hundred onto a CD.
Thanks Cougar
What about films am i kind of stuffed ?
Depends on where you're downloading the films from.
If they're downloadable as files, then you can back em up somewhere.
Even iTunes stuff can be stored externally if you set the preferences in iTunes.
Hi DezB yep will be buying from iTunes
Bought stuff from iTunes is always there if you manage to lose it somehow, you just download it again. Ebooks take up hardly any space at all, I've got 335 ebooks on my pad and phone, and they hardly show on the status bar, probably about 300Mb, ± 100 or so.
If you're getting your ebooks through the iBook store, then they can be re-downloaded if you lose them as well, in fact they should appear across your various devices. Kindle books are a bit different.
Cheers CountZero
yes will be on me Mac book pro
and looking to pick up an iPad mini
for the train journeys
As said - just let Apple store your stuff. Once purchased you can download onto all your devices. (Up to 5 devices I think, but you can change them)
Grantway, you're laughing then. I don't think you can actually read books on OSX, but you can, IIRC, buy books via iBooks on the Mac, then sync the pad, and they should show up there, or sync and drag them onto the pad. If you have an iPhone as well, then if you're reading a book on one device, and start reading the same book on the other, then the book will skip forward to whatever page you're on. Kindle books do the same. So do ePub books sourced from elsewhere on the 'net.
I've got a NAS drive (an external drive connected to the router that all devices can access over wifi) and you can set itunes to use it as default library. It can take a few moments to catch up when zipping through your music library, but if you are short on space it can be a good solution.
I'm wary of external drives as they are all to easy to knock off the sofa, lost quite a few pics that way between backups 🙁 The NAS sits safely on its shelf out of elbows reach.
Personally I hated downloading a movie through iTunes due to the drm. All I wanted to do was stream it to my tv using my ps3 so we didn't have to watch it with crap laptop sound & tiny screen. They need to get with the real world.
In the end I downloaded it illegally as well so I could watch it how I wanted. Surely that's never right...
No drm on music or films anymore, as far as I know
Films still have DRM, and it's not going away. Hollywood has far too many powerful friends in government. The various copyright laws that the US is trying to force onto other nations is proof of that. RIPA being one. You only have to look at the ridiculous situation with regional codings on DVD and Blu-Ray, the latter of which still hasn't had the DRM hacked.
Music is different, the recording industry were too slow to get an effective DRM in place, and in any case it's far too easy for musicians to create and bypass the big labels. Film is totally different.