Thread: Kindle 4th gen: help needed
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Old 12-12-2016, 08:05 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by tekkasit View Post
MOBI file format is a non-protected file format, you can freely copy MOBI file into any devices and it allow you to read the content.

But AZW3 file format is difference, it's device-specific. You can't just simply copy DRMed AZW3 files from one Kindle e-reader device and put in another Kindle e-reader device and expect that it will work.
Either format can have DRM or not when delivered from Amazon. Whether or not any particular book has DRM is the publisher's choice.
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