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wallcraft · 02-22-2009, 11:14 PM

If you have a Kindle and a PRS-700, then DRM-free ebooks will work on both but they support different formats so you would typically use Calibre to format shift back and forth.

Since most Kindle ebooks are AZW, which is MOBI, their DRM (99.9% of AZW ebooks have DRM) can be stripped using mobidedrm and then Calibre can format shift to (say) ePub for the PRS-700. Note that stripping DRM is generally thought to be illegal in the US. Also, you can't currently buy Kindle ebooks unless there is a Kindle registered to your account.

A Kindle account can have 6 devices registered to it. Annotations and highlighting can be shared between the 6 devices, although I'm not sure of the details (e.g. what happens if two Kindles annotate the same ebook). In any case, the annotations and highlights are saved in a plain text file that can be shared with others (even if they are not on your account). I am not aware of any way to make these inter-oparable with a PRS-700, but they are plain text with a well defined approach to locations within the ebook (so it might be possible to do).

02-22-2009, 11:14 PM	#3
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,975 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	If you have a Kindle and a PRS-700, then DRM-free ebooks will work on both but they support different formats so you would typically use Calibre to format shift back and forth. Since most Kindle ebooks are AZW, which is MOBI, their DRM (99.9% of AZW ebooks have DRM) can be stripped using mobidedrm and then Calibre can format shift to (say) ePub for the PRS-700. Note that stripping DRM is generally thought to be illegal in the US. Also, you can't currently buy Kindle ebooks unless there is a Kindle registered to your account. A Kindle account can have 6 devices registered to it. Annotations and highlighting can be shared between the 6 devices, although I'm not sure of the details (e.g. what happens if two Kindles annotate the same ebook). In any case, the annotations and highlights are saved in a plain text file that can be shared with others (even if they are not on your account). I am not aware of any way to make these inter-oparable with a PRS-700, but they are plain text with a well defined approach to locations within the ebook (so it might be possible to do).