Thread: Idiot directions for Igorsk's Mobipocket workaround
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Old 01-01-2008, 03:37 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by bchowdhr View Post
I am, in particular, interested in finding out how books I bought for Kindle can be read on a computer using Mobipocket reader.
This isn't possible. The knowledge necessary to break the Kindle's DRM is out there, both for adding MobiPocket PIDs and for completely removing the encryption, but no one has made such software available so far as I know. It would definitely be illegal in the US to make such software available. Note that Amazon could easily allow this, but unless they do so the AZW files are locked down to particular Kindle's only.

What Igorski's workaround does is the reverse: it makes DRMed MobiPocket e-books you purchased available on the Kindle. This is (probably) legal if the site you bought the MobiPocket e-book from adds the Kindle's PID for you, as required by the workaround. Note that some sites will reject the Kindle PID as invalid.
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