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Originally Posted by MidnightBlue
A religion? A common topic over the past few days. Well I hope that I can avoid baptism. How does DRM lock one into Amazon? I have a lot of non Amazon books on my Kindle, either emailed direct to the Kindle or put on using Calibre. I have a lot of Gutenberg Project books loaded via Calibre.
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The problem is when you migrate out of the Kindle (and presumably there is no Kindle app for that device).
If the Kindle eBook is DRM'd, you can't convert it using Calibre without breaking the DRM first.
Loading files into the Kindle isn't the problem with DRM'd Kindle books. Using the files you bought via the Kindle to other devices, is. (This is somewhat mitigated by the proliferation of Kindle Apps which locks you into the Amazon ecosystem even when you don't necessarily own a Kindle).