Thread: Coverting public library ebooks to Kindle
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Old 10-07-2010, 12:07 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by randyflycaster View Post
I have no way of getting that answer from my library.
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You can assume that all library ebooks are locked with drm. The libraries almost all use the same subscription service "Overdrive" to provide ebooks to patrons. The three formats are mobipocket, pdf and epub. To use any of these on a Kindle, you must remove the drm.

Pdf and epub formats can be used without removing the drm by Sony, Astak readers, and I believe the nook and Kobo readers. These is much discussion on this and other forums about the "scripts" needed to remove the drm from these and other ebooks so that they can also be used on a Kindle. It is a personal decision/choice about the legality of doing so.

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