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Old 12-09-2010, 01:52 PM   #13870
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Originally Posted by SameOldStory View Post
Rant - It's kind of funny (because I don't own a Kindle) but my blood pressure soars every time I read that kindle owners can only get books from Amazon.
If the books are in MobiPocket format, and *not* protected by DRM, you can side load them on a Kindle and read them.

If the books *are* protected by DRM, and are *not* sourced from Amazon, you must strip the DRM to read them on the Kindle.

The purpose of the DRM applied by Amazon is to lock you into them as the vendor, so you may only *purchase* ebooks from Amazon.

Amazon offers selection and pricing sufficiently good that this is not seen as an imposition by Kindle users.
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