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Old 11-29-2007, 09:43 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
Or you could buy the MS Reader version of the books you want, strip the DRM (as long as you're comfortable with that) & run them through lit2lrf using libprs500. Then you'd have a copy that works on your Sony. If you switch to Mobi just open the obf file created by ConvertLit, when it makes the book into HTML, in MobiPocket creator & turn the book into a Mobi file. That's what many folks do bypassing DRM altogether.
I've done some of this, and even resorted to searching the torrents when a book I own is not available for purchase in any electronic form. The problem is that I am dependent on someone writing tools like libprs500 and BookDesigner.

My frustration stems from the fact that the publishers could have given us a DRM solution that granted all the rights we currently enjoy with a p-book and still protected their copyright, but they chose not to.
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