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Old 10-07-2010, 03:37 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by OakIris View Post
Of the few sites I've looked at - Baen, Feedbooks, Manybooks, Project Gutenberg, etc. -they all offer books for the Kindle. I assumed this meant they were DRM-free and ready to be opened/read on the Kindle. Am I wrong?

I don't really want to deal with the legalities (or moral issues, if any,) of stripping DRM from an eBook.

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I think those books are all DRMfree. Baen has DRM-free books; a lot of its authors give the first ebook of a serial for free.
As for DRM-stripping; I never got the hang of it, so I can't be bothered. But I always had mobi-format on my other ereader.

Calibre is very good for converting, but once in a while it converts a book not that well and then I use a free online converter :
http://www.2epub.com/
· input: doc, epub, fb2, html, lit, lrf, mobi, odt, pdb, pdf, prc, rtf, txt.
· output: epub, fb2, lit, lrf, mobi.
It's only for 5 books at a time, but it's very handy and does a good job too.
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