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Originally Posted by Boethius
I was hoping to get an ebook reader this spring as squinting at the Windows Mobile screen is becoming tiresome. I have some important and expensive reference books purchased at MobiPocket.com. The Kindle store doesn't have them, and if I have no way to move these over to the Kindle 2, for sure I am an ex-prospective customer.
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There would normally be two ways of getting Mobi DRM documents on a Kindle: with DRM in tact and without. To get the books on without stripping the DRM, you would need to register the PID of the Kindle to the store and re-download a copy authorized for the Kindle. You would use the kindlepid script to generate the PID from your serial number and the kindlefix script to make it readable on the Kindle. In your case, this wouldn't work since Mobipocket.com will not accept a PID from the Kindle.
The other way is to strip the DRM off. This would entail using a tool called mobidedrm and the PID you had registered at Mobipocket.com. We cannot give you specific instructions on this forum on how to do this or where to get the scripts. Removing the DRM is of questionable legality in most places and probably violates your user agreement with Mobipocket.com.
What people are concerned about now is whether Amazon will ever bust people for having deDRMed books on their Kindle. We know their Terms of Service allow them to look at the content stored on the Kindle but it doesn't seem they are doing that now except for the cases they spell out explicitly like backing up your bookmarks, clippings and annotations.