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Originally Posted by HarryT
The Amazon UK store seems to have a good selection of books in other languages.
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There are quite a few languages in the world, though, so "a good selection in other languages" isn't really necessarily very useful at all. As far as I can tell, there aren't really any Kindle books in Estonian at all on Amazon (apart from some really ancient-looking bible and dozens of language learning guides and dictionaries, none of them relevant for native language speaker readers), for example.
I do the same as Sweetpea for my mother (buy the books for her, convert, send to Kindle - well, the Kindle app on the iPad she uses; I find sending it there easiest as I don't actually need to handle her iPad and the books just appear there without her having to do anything at all), except that Estonian ebooks, which are all released in epub, use social DRM / watermarking, so no DRM removal is needed or takes place, as far as I understand Alf's tools. They are freely convertible and shops tend to include instructions and a Calibre link for people who own Kindles.
In other words, with social DRM (watermarked) epubs, I do the exact same thing for my mother as Sweetpea does with Adobe DRM epubs for her mother, but I am not breaking any laws or terms & conditions simply thanks to our publishers having agreed on watermarking, not Adobe DRM.