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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
No, you won't be able to buy Amazon books from a Kobo reader and vice versa. Investing in the wrong book store goes for books that cannot get their DRM removed easily. If you cannot remove the DRM and keep a copy of your book as a backup you will potentially lose access to your books in the future. Also with DRM it will be impossible to convert a book from a Kobo friendly book to a Kindle friendly book. Kobo does epub/kepub books, a Kindle does Amazon books. Both are not compatible with each other.
Everybody has a walled garden, some are worse than others. The worst is arguably Apple with their ibooks from the itunes store. Good luck getting the DRM removed or to read the books on anything but the iBooks app (on macos, iphone, ipod, or ipad only). Google has an app in the appstore, iBook app on Android? No way.
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Thanks Tigger. Yeah, heard a fair amount about that. Just finished a bio on Jobs. Will definitely avoid an iPad. And I'm trying to figure out the DRM removal thing right now. (It's not fun. I guess it's especially hard for Linux.) I guess I'll be relying on Calibre to convert them back and forth. Appreciate the feedback.