Thread: Newbie: Which reader to buy? Is kindle my only choice?
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Old 08-11-2008, 05:35 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by smariner View Post
The blog at http://igorsk.blogspot.com/2007/12/m...on-kindle.html (is this yours?) describes a way to read DRM-ed MobiPocket ebooks on the Kindle? Are you implying that this approach will not work for the OverDrive mobipocket eBooks from the my library?
It might work, if your library accepts Kindle's PID and the "fixed" books still work on latest Kindle firmware (I think there were some reports of Kindle rejecting them).
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
This is incorrect. The Gen3 can happily read Mobi-format library books.
Yes, I indeed forgot about Cybook. As far as I recall, reading time-limited books requires uploading a text file with timestamp - a feature which doesn't seem to be documented anywhere but Mobilread.

So far, Reader is the only one that allows reading DRMed library books "out of the box".
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