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Originally Posted by nowthenmobile
I have to say that it is a real pleasure to be on a forum where all the contributors use such excellent English. I find it somewhat intimidating actually.
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I'll break that pattern by busting into this discussion with my oh-so-casual American idiom
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It sounds like you're intimidated by the idea of attempting to remove DRM. It also sounds like you're in the UK. Good for you, the DMCA does not apply to you
. I don't know what does.
I know Amazon has a new UK store. You can check if they have totally free ebooks (no $2 fee to download). If so, download and install the Kindle 4 PC app, on a Windows computer (I think Macs won't work in this case -- if you do use a Mac only do this in Bootcamp or whatever it's called when you run an actual Windows OS on a Mac) and choose a dozen or so free ebooks. Install a mobi-based reading program (MobiReader or something else). If you're already using Calibre it has a mobi reader built in.
Visit google and look for "DarkReverser". Make a pot of your favorite warm drink (hot chocolate/tea/coffee/whatever). Get comfy and read a VERY VERY VERY long collection of blog posts. You will learn more about DRM (and peoples hostility towards it) than you probably want to learn. However, in there will be important pointers to tools to remove DRM from Kindle books and pretty much all the answers you need to using said tools. Get the tools and install them on your computer.
Run your Kindle4PC books through the DRM-removal software. Check the resulting files in your mobi reader. Keep trying until you can read the books in your Mobi reader software without any errors.
The Kindle4PC DRM-removal is spit-easy. Get the tools. Create two sub-directories. Copy your DRMed Kindle4PC books into one sub-directory. Double-click on an executable. Look in the other sub-directory. Your DRM-free books will be there. These are not actual directions, there's a little more to it than this. But, if you can follow these steps, you can remove DRM from Kindle books on a PC (there's nothing "harder" in the process than these steps).
Once you're able to do this, you can reconsider buying a Kindle. In the meantime, hang your head down in that bucket, shine the light on your Sony, and try to enjoy the ebook experience
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These instructions deliberately left vague in respect of Mobileread's policy to not provide explicit DRM-removing directions, but hopefully explicit enough to hopefully minimize some of the "But I'm not a geek" fear people have of DRM-removal.