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Originally Posted by Zarich
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I worry a bit about the fact that the kindle doesn't support what appears to be the growing standard. I did a search at my local library today for sci-fi and fantasy books. My library has more than 600 ebooks. that is a lot. None of which can be read on the kindle.
So now even more torn than before.
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All of which can be read on the Kindle... if you are willing to learn how to break DRM and use calibre to convert to mobi. In a nutshell, it's as easy as learning the location on your computer where you d/l the ebook file and then importing that into calibre. Then either sideload the ebook or email the file to your Kindle via
youremailaddress@kindle.com (or kindlefree.com if you have a 3g model). Calibre converts and emails in one shot.
While I would love for the Kindle to natively support epub, I have not found the lack of epub support to be a hindrance in obtaining ebooks from *any* source I wish to use, be it B&N, Borders, the library, etc.
One might well argue that epub is a defacto standard. OTOH, one may equally well argue that Amazon's mobi collection is as complete if not moreso than the epub sources combined. Choose your own standard... or choose not to worry about standards. Personally, I chose the latter option.