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Originally Posted by rogerVA
I should know this by now. DRM is an evil thing, I gather from everybody here. I'm not even sure which if any ebooks I have on my Kindle 3 are DRM and I'm not sure what the difference would be. Could somebody give me a quick rundown? (If this is too much to answer, I understand that, too.)
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Example.
We have 3 e-ink readers and 3 LCD devices which also double as readers in our house. One is a Kindle, one sony, one BeBook Mini, and 3 WinCE devices.
Now, if I buy a book from Amazon, it'll be perfectly readable on the Kindle. No problem there. However, that Kindle is my husband's and I want to read that book too on my Sony or WinCE device. Which I can't do, because it's DRM'd. Or I buy a book from BooksOnBoard, which I can read perfectly on my Sony, but not on that Kindle, because it's DRM infested.
But, luckily, there's a perfect solution to DRM-infested books. And that's not not buying them, but simply removing the DRM.
I recently bought a book from Amazon, removed the DRM and put it on my sony to read. The kindle has the original version (loaded via wifi).