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And the answer is no. If one buys Topaz formatted books, there is no known way to read them on anything else but a Kindle, and if one buys DRM'd books from Sony, there's no way to read them on anything but a Sony PRS. Yes, one solution could be to avoid buying books directly in either of these formats, e.g. buying them in LIT instead, with the intent of stripping the DRM and converting so one could read them on either the Kindle or the Sony PRS (or some other system), but that wasn't the question mdibella was asking. |
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10-08-2008, 06:40 PM | #98 | |
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However, is there anywhere to purchase books that are in LRF format?? Or is the only availability LRX?? Maybe that's a good reason to get a Kindle. Not all books from Kindle are in Topaz format, so those are not as much of a problem with respect to the DRM anyway. |
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Yes... but like I said, most of the places where you can buy an LRF eBook you can also get the Mobi version. Like fictionwise multi-format, Baen, Webscriptions, Jordansbooks, etc. So there would be no need to convert the LRF to mobi. Because if they are selling LRF it is by definition DRM free. In the case you are buying a DRM free ebook that you want in LRF and Mobi and the store only allows you to d/l one formate you are better off getting the Mobi and converting it to LRF, since the tool exists. BOb |
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So, boo freakin hoo ... I guess I just won't be able to read those books. Dammit. |
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Umm there's an lrf2epub converter on these forums search for lrftools
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