uhmmm...calibre great program little slo on my mac but at least it works...wi kindle files will DRM hinder translation to text files? if so how can u work around it? hear there is free software available to strip the DRM? also th unique number asssociated wi each kindle how do find out wot it is? kno amazon dont like peeble knoin how to do this heh heh oh well.....any helop appreciated......