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Originally Posted by lizzybeth05
Harry,
By loading these files onto the Kindle (which I’m guessing is not an ‘authorized’ use of the kindle) would it void the warrenty? Or get you in trouble in anyway with Amazon, or are you violating any kind of copyrights?
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Kindle owners would be better at the first 2 questions, and perhaps the warranty question here, but in terms of copyright violation, I believe the answer would be this: you would technically be guilty of violating the DMCA (digital millenium copyright act), due to your act of subverting a DRM schema to allow a file to be used on an unintended device. That said, considering you'd be altering a file you
purchased in way that only affects your personal use of it, the odds of anyone caring is beyond remote.
If, say, you won the lottery, and someone decided to use this as an excuse to litigate against you and milk some of your winnings out of you, I have doubts they'd even be able to win in court. There's a few conflicting interests between fair-use and the DMCA that remain unresolved. And anyway, you would probably be able to afford a good lawyer at that point
In other words, this is a bit of a gray area. I wouldn't worry about it. Just keep a backup of your original file.
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Second, when the files are converted, are there any problems with the formatting? [INDENT]For example: if you copy text from a PDF file and paste them in Word the letters will copy over but a lot of the formatting is lost or altered. There are typically extra line breaks and sometimes extra spaces between letters of the same word. Is this kind of thing a problem with the conversions from microsoft reader format to mobi format?
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I recently downloaded Calibre, which is a free content management suite for non-DRM'ed content on eReaders. I did a quick conversion on a PDF book that I had bought (to both LRF and Mobi, it wouldn't even successfully convert to epub), and it was awful. Nearly all formatting was lost. I'm sure there are some cases where the conversion works well, but bad results are definitely a real possibility.