Thread: One Store to Rule Them All? or: Can Anyone Stop Amazon ?
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Old 03-11-2012, 01:54 PM   #64
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Originally Posted by avantman42 View Post
It works on Linux if you have a Kindle registered to your account (I run Ubuntu and Fedora, and it works on both for me). I guess if you don't have a Kindle then they don't give you the option, since it's intended to be used to give you a file that you can sideload to the Kindle.
Quick question regarding downloading files to Linux for transfer to your Kindle device:

Does Amazon let you download a de-DRMd file so you can transfer to your Kindle (and if de-DRMd, readable by FBReader or other ebook readers)?

Or does the Kindle device have some kind of DRM-ID detector inside it to decrypt a DRM-d file?

With Linux, you can read in Kindle Cloud via Firefox version 7 or higher (possibly Firefox 6) if Chrome is not your thing. (I use Puppy Linux 5.25 running off a Live-CD with a Firefox 7 .pet add-on with no problems at all).

(I can also read Google cloud books with this setup as well. B&N, Kobo, Feedbooks and most other DRMd sites are prettymuch uninterested in my money with this setup.)
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