Thread: TechCrunch: Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX's Savior
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Old 05-10-2009, 05:30 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Is there OCR that outputs in MOBI format? Because colleges will either have to do that or they'll have to convert PDF to MOBI for the Kindle DX if they expect kids to annotate. (I'm talking strictly for their own course materials, not textbooks and the like which will be up to Amazon.)
Yes to the last bit: from what I have seen, most ebooks for the Kindle that you can buy on Amazon are in a reflowable format (probably mobi?), not in pdf. Thus, they are searchable, annotatable, etc. Obviously a pirated book would be much less likely to be in a reflowable format.
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