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Originally Posted by nigeldb
If you don't mind, for a newbie, relatively non-technical, how difficult will it be transport books from Sony to Iliad (sally reads way faster than I do) or will we have to buy books twice, two difernt formats. You menton de-DRM...time to look this up.
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If you don't want to be breaking DRM and converting and you each want to read the same ebook, then yes, you would need to buy it twice... assuming you are buying a DRM protected ebook. There are several places that sell ebooks that are "mulitformat" and you can download both the Sony and iLiad (mobipocket) files from one purchase. Places like fictionwise.com has multiformat, also bean free library, webscriptions, steve jordan, mike mccollum. There are also tons of free ebooks you can download here that are already in the two formats, most are out of copyright while some are under Creative Commons like Cory Doctorow's books.
That said, it is pretty easy to remove DRM from the LIT (MS Reader) format. Search this formum, there are tons of messages on convertLIT, calibre and mobiperl. Those three tools will allow you to remove the DRM, and convert the lit to both LRF for the Sony and Mobi for the iLiad.
HTH,
BOb