Thread: Hacks Amazon Kindle Hack: Read DRM-protected Mobipocket content
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Old 08-05-2008, 12:37 AM   #236
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Originally Posted by sassanik View Post
So the consensus is that it is not currently possible in a legal manner to read kindle books (ie books bought through amazon for the kindle) on another type of reader?
The Kindle uses the Mobipocket format. You would need to convert the Mobi file into an IMP file the EB1150 can display, and that would require breaking the DRM, whether you bought the Kindle version from Amazon or a Mobipocket version from Mobipocket or someone like Fictionwise.

So yes, it's not possible to do it legally.

(And I believe you have a Kindle before you can buy Kindle books from Amazon, because the DRM is tied to a PID unique to your reader. No reader, no PID...)
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