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Originally Posted by Pinecone
Anything special to know about buying from Amazon without owning a Kindle?
There are a couple of books, that are only available for Kindle I wouldn't mind getting.
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If you are in the U.S. it's not hard at all. The basic idea is to purchase the book using the free Amazon Kindle App software for your PC or Mac, then use a DRM stripping script to 'unswindle' your purchased book to remove the DRM, so that you can load it into the free Calibre library software on your PC and convert it to EPUB format and transfer it to the Sony Reader.
This forum avoids posting hard-links to the scripts needed to 'unswindle' your Kindle content, but you can Google around and find them.
Unfortunately, if you are outside the U.S. you may not even be able to purchase the book from Amazon in the first place due to international publishing rights restrictions.
There are usually ways to get around this and purchase 'U.S. only' Kindle books from outside the U.S. I personally think Amazon deliberately leaves sleazy loopholes open to purchase U.S. only versions of published books, because they like having an unfair advantage over their other competitors like Kobo who DO at least try to play by the rules.
If you can't see the U.S. Kindle store at all from your country, you may be able to use a TOR proxy relay with a U.S. exit node to gain access, then some have reported using an international credit card to purchase a domestic Amazon 'gift card' and then using that to pay for their Kindle book.
This all requires quite a bit of work and technical expertise; just to FORCE them to TAKE YOUR MONEY and let you legally purchase your book.
Sadly, by refusing to recognize that we are now living in a single GLOBAL media market, the Authors, Publishers, and Book Sellers are just cheating themselves, because most folks don't bother, electing to either do without, or just rip off the title in question using Anonymous P2P or USENET.