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Old 03-02-2009, 12:49 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by rana View Post
So can the DRM'd PDF be converted to something that either the Hanlin or Kindle can read ? May be by maintaining the same PID of the device, so that I am not not really removing DRM but making it work for my situation
That works for reading mobi's on the Kindle, I think, because Kindle's native format is basically a slight variant of mobi. This wouldn't work if the Kindle didn't support a DRM'ed variant of mobi.

With the Hanlin, I don't think you can just change a PID in the file, because the Hanlin has no support for the DRM used in PDF's (which I'm 99% sure is different than the DRM used in mobis). I think the only way to go here, would be to strip the DRM from the PDF entirely. Then you'd be able to read it fine on the Hanlin or any number of devices with PDF support. That is generally not legal, of course.

And of course, the Kindle can't even read PDF's, so even if you stripped the DRM entirely, the Kindle wouldn't know what to do with it.
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