Simply put, physical books are taxing. They require the cutting down of trees, consumes ink to print, and are heavy. The advantage is they are invaluable to authors. If you buy one book, then you compensated the author one time. If you lend a book out to someone, you can’t read that book until it returns to you. Simply put, you have one copy, and one copy only. Something similar must be applied to digital books. This however requires some additional features that are simply not available with the current ebook formats.
Author
The author will write their book in their computer’s word processor. Since it is not a requirement to have a Kal-OS PC, there will be a need to convert the .odt file into a .klib file. There will be a converter that would be available for Linux (Debian base), MacOS, and Windows. The author of the app will be the Kaldan National Library. You should only use this converter tool. Any other tools are not acceptable. Once you download the app, you would then import your book(s), and convert. Your converted books will be the filename, but the extension will be changed to .klib while also keeping your .odt file.
.klib files have an advantage for the author. The file will only be read by one person. This means each person with an NIN will be able to download your book to any and all of their ebook readers. Most likely, one will have reader, and one tablet. If the owner of the copy lends the .klib to someone else with a .klib reader, the owner can not read that .klib file until their copy is relinquished back to them. This provides for the advantage of a physical book while keeping it as a digital file.
Book Owner
For the book owner, all of your registered ebook devices will be able to be used. As long as there is a WAN connection, the page you are on can synchronize to all of your WAN connected devices so you would not have to search for the page you are on if you should have to change devices. In addition when using a tablet, the owner can write notes into the eBook which is something that can’t be done with other formats. And if you were to lose a device, you can go to https://klib.ka and log in. You can then mark a device as lost, and all .klib files that are on the ebook reader will be marked as unavailable once the reader connects to the WAN. This will mean that the owner of the ebook does not lose their ebook, and unauthorized copies are not floating around. If you have a habit of “losing” eBook readers, then you might have your account suspended from being able to purchase new eBooks, but you would be able to read free books, and borrow from the Kaldan National Library.