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Old 01-24-2009, 05:13 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by chlorine View Post
As far as I understand, many readers are recognized as usb storage devices when connected to a linux computer, which is fine by me. However, it seems to me that some readers won't be able to read a drm'ed book installed in such a way on the reader.
The short answer to this is buy a device which support Mobipocket format/DRM. Which means avoid Sony.

The long answer is, there are ways to remove the Mobipocket DRM and convert the ebook to a format Sony can read. These things run fine on Linux.

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