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Arrghus · 08-02-2011, 09:35 AM

vans, why not convert to EPUB using Calibre? If you install the Kindle for PC app, it's a very simple process starting with using Alf's tools to strip the DRM (once installed as a plugin in Calibre it's automatic) from the file, and from there converting from Mobi to EPUB. I recently bought Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov from Amazon, because it wasn't for sale in the UK as an eBook elsewhere (silly geographical restrictions!).

As the conversion was so simple and effective, I now have the confidence to buy more books Amazon if they are cheaper/actually available.

Tesco also have a UK eBookstore. Might be worth checking them out, though I suspect most of what they sell will be similarly priced to Waterstone's and WH Smith. I wish they too, like Amazon, would state when a book is having its price set by the publisher. It would make it easier to discern whether or not they are just being scalps with their pricing.

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Arrghus Zealot Posts: 143 Karma: 5002 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Llandudno, Wales Device: Kindle PW2; Nexus 5X	vans, why not convert to EPUB using Calibre? If you install the Kindle for PC app, it's a very simple process starting with using Alf's tools to strip the DRM (once installed as a plugin in Calibre it's automatic) from the file, and from there converting from Mobi to EPUB. I recently bought Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov from Amazon, because it wasn't for sale in the UK as an eBook elsewhere (silly geographical restrictions!). As the conversion was so simple and effective, I now have the confidence to buy more books Amazon if they are cheaper/actually available. Tesco also have a UK eBookstore. Might be worth checking them out, though I suspect most of what they sell will be similarly priced to Waterstone's and WH Smith. I wish they too, like Amazon, would state when a book is having its price set by the publisher. It would make it easier to discern whether or not they are just being scalps with their pricing. Last edited by Arrghus; 08-02-2011 at 09:42 AM.