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Originally Posted by BookCat
Katsunami, that's just what I've been doing when purchasing Kindle books: downloading them to kindle4pc, then taking them into Calibre which has Alf's tools embedded, then converting them into lrf so that I can put the books on my Sony 505. It works.
I'm only hanging around the Kindle dept because I'm thinking of buying a Paperwhite. Learning lots.
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This is what most people on Mobileread have been doing, since the Alf tools exist
It works the same way with other readers.
If you buy a Kobo and shop at Amazon, you can use exactly the same workflow, converting books to EPUB (or use the Kobo-specific KEPUB output plugin) instead of LRF.
Should you decide on a Kindle, but want to be able to buy from EPUB sources, you'll replace Kindle4PC with
ADE 2.0, and then follow your normal workflow, converting EPUB to AZW3. This is what I've been doing for two years.
If you buy a Kindle and shop at Amazon, I'd still use Calibre anyway, to un-DRM.
(Actually, I go a step further. If I buy an AZW3 book from Amazon, I either extract an EPUB using the KindleUnpack plugin, or convert to EPUB, whatever works best. Then I sae the original, un-DRM-ed AZW3 and archive it, fix up the EPUB the way I want it for my library, and then convert that back to AZW3. If I use a LIT book, from one of the old BAEN CD's, I do the same; LIT -> EPUB (archive the old LIT) -> AZW3. This way, my entire library has EPUB as a base format, even if the books originally are not EPUBs.)