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Originally Posted by brendaclark
Actually, my son got me a kindle for xmas. I am also one of those "not technologically inclined" moms. I've been fiddling with mine all day and have downloaded several free e-books. It's pretty cool, I would NEVER have bought one for myself. Sounds like your mom is enjoying her gift.
I have a question about sharing e-books. My sis has tons of books that i can access on my ipod touch. However, I'm not sure I can use her books on my kindle. Does anyone know if that's an option?
Brenda C
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Originally Posted by jbcohen
Actually you can Brenda, the troubble is with the format that the apple uses. Typically apple uses a proprietary format so that you are locked into their stuff. Look at the files that your sister has an look at the format of the books that she has and see if any of the formats are compatible with your Kindle, which I seriously doubt (I'm not slighting Kindle, I'm slighting Apple). I belive your Kindle can read epub and pdf, if any of your sister's books are in either of those two formats she can send them to you, otherwise you will have to get them yourself.
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Brenda: Did you get a Kindle 3, 2 or 1?
You won't be able to share those books wirelessly with your sister on the Kindle, but you might be able to transfer those books.
Ask your sister in what format the books are that she has. Important question is wether these books are protected with DRM (digital rights management). If that is the case, than you won't be able to read those books on your Kindle. (apart from removing that DRM, but that's a bit complicated).
If the books are not protected with DRM; ask your sister to put them in a file. You then can convert them with the easy-to-use program Calibre to mobi…….and send those books to your Kindle with that same program.
jbcohen: No Kindle can read epub without converting it first to mobi (or pdf txt).