Digital Books Disapointment

All of my shared-reading digital book plans have been foiled. I had amazing intentions. I was going to buy my favorite read alouds for kindle and then project them onto the smartboard. We were going to giggle and laugh as a class over all the great choral reading we would do as we read books together. In my mind it was practically a Brady-Bunch-family-love type lessons. It was going to be beautiful.

The digital story-less smartboard

My generation 1 ipad, however, refused to project onto the smartboard. My school ipad projects, but not my old ipad. 

OK. No problem. I have a kindle app on my phone.

My iphone refused to project on the smartboard.

Foiled again.

No problem- right? Kindle has a PC app. Why waste all this time with different devices when it's possible to just get it on the computer. 

Turns out the picture books I want won't download on the PC.

I am in digital-storybook-depression. My hopes and dreams feel dashed. My beautiful ideas of reading and cheering together are gone. I've actually considered holding up my ipad and just reading from them, but in reality a picture book is far better than everyone staring at the ipad.

So if anyone has any ideas or suggestions for projecting digital books please let me know. And until I get answers, it will be traditional books.