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Old 02-27-2009, 08:32 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Stingo View Post
Ok. I'm confused so I'll have to post a question that, hopefully, will not cross the margin of forum propriety. I am a happy PRS505 and Calibre user. I am thinking of getting a Kindle 2 for wife and to sell her 505 to a friend. When I buy books for my 505 I always strip off the DRM before downloading to the reader. Why...I don't like DRM and I don't want it to come back to haunt me in years to come. I thought that I could do the same with the Kindle.
I've seen multiple posts that say that you can strip DRM off of AZW files although I can't find any software to do it. This raises several questions:
How many formats can you buy e-books from Amazon in? How do you select format? Any hint that Amazon would drop AZW?
Where do you recommend, outside the forum, that I look to learn more about saving the files that I buy DRM free?
Does the Kindle currently work with Calibre?
If I load a DRM free file on the Kindle is it true that it has to be DRMd to work?
I know that some of these points are covered in other threads but it is so much easier to ask at one time. Thanks.
Check the Kindle Myths and Partial Truths link in my sig for info about formats available from Amazon and which can be converted for use on the Kindle and links to the ebook wiki which contains sites that sell ebooks.

On stripping DRM from .azw files, search the forums and Google for MobiDeDRM (a python script run similar to KindleFIX).
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