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Old 10-22-2010, 03:59 PM   #13
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What Moe said. I maintain my library in both Mobi and ePub formats, and I avoid Topaz books, as they don't allow my doing so without a great deal of work. I make only extremely rare exceptions for must-read titles.

I'd also add that some Topaz books are horribly formatted and a real PITA to read on the Kindle. As I only own a few, all purchased back in the Kindle 1 days, this may have improved -- I can't say.

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Originally Posted by Moe The Cat View Post
Topaz is basically page images with Amazon DRM. If you want to read it on a Kindle, fine. However, if you don't have a Kindle, it's difficult to convert Topaz to another format, such as epub, which can be read on a variety of other ereader devices. It involves both dedrming the file and OCRing the page images. Non-Topaz Amazon files are much easier to convert and read on other devices.
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