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Old 07-29-2010, 05:23 PM   #362
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
The method she specified was shifting the Mobipocket DRM. But, that's no longer possible to do on firmware 2.5 or above as Amazon has changed how the PID is calculated. To my knowledge, nobody has yet figured out how to get the PID from a book downloaded to firmware 2.5.x. So there is no legal or even semi-legal way to get a library eBook on a Kindle 3.
DG's method should still work with firmware 2.5. It involves calculating the Kindle's PID (which still works), supplying that PID to the library, and then using a Kindlefix script to set a falg in the library book so that the Kindle accepts it.

Firmware 2.5 didn't change the devices PID, it just added another way for books to have a per-book PID. Books encoded with the Kindle's device PID can still be read on Kindles.
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