This Samsung commercial seems to start out a little like the video in the original post:

Don't don't know the answers to these, but FYI, I recently stumbled on to this
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/50-places-free-books-online.htm
Maybe there are some kids' books in there ...

-kunkel321 (September 11, 2012, 11:50 AM)

Nice..found a link to 161 Places For Free Children's eBooks Online  there. That will keep me busy for a while. :)

-daddydave (September 11, 2012, 12:02 PM)

Looks excellent! Thanks for the link!

We're not quite at that stage yet, but I'll be keeping this in mind.

Of course now that Microsoft has essentially bought out (or more probably bought off) B&N (in an effort to get out of that ridiculous patent lawsuit they themselves started) there's every indication the new Nooks will soon start being based on Windows 8 rather than Android as the current models are. Could be good or bad. Only time will tell on that score.

-40hz (September 11, 2012, 12:02 PM)

This really pisses me off. Even when you want to just go and get a book for your kid, you have to worry about this crap.

Nothing against you 40 - you've pointed out a valid issue. But should it even be an issue? Sanity would say "no". Reality on the other hand isn't completely sane. :(

-Renegade (September 11, 2012, 12:27 PM)

After Borders closed, showing that all brick bookstores will die eventually, buying a Nook from the other big brick-and-mortar bookstore seemed like a sure dead end, and Amazon seemed like it would be the last bookstore standing. At least the partnership with Microsoft seems to change that, so in that sense it is an improvement.

Priceless.

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-daddydave (September 17, 2012, 05:14 PM)

Lol is an acronym, not a word, so it should be LOL.
 ;D

-Edvard (September 18, 2012, 10:15 AM)

It is also a sentence fragment. :-)