Thread: I've never owned a Kindle. What about you?
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Old 11-09-2013, 02:15 PM   #101
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Originally Posted by Quexos View Post
To answer the original question, I've never had a Kindle either as I worry about the proprietary format forcing you to stay within the Amazon environment. As in, I can just trash my epub collection should I decide to use a Kindle.
That's nonsense.

As long as you either use DRM-free books or remove DRM (which is trivial to do, as long as the Unnamed Tools are supported by their makers), Calibre can convert from one format to the other.

My entire e-book library is EPUB only, apart from some very few exceptions that were only obtainable through Amazon. Calibre converts these to AZW3 just fine (and you can actually configure it to do it on uploading the books to the Kindle: you won't even notice that it's converting, apart from the fact that the upload takes a bit longer).
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