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Originally Posted by =X=
Okay I have the storm the larger screen does make it easy to read.
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Yes, and one thing I've considered is whether I might not want simply to get a different phone and stick to that for mobile reading. I'm not a fan of touch screens, especially virtual keyboards, but I suppose I could get used to it. I could easily sell my BB 8900 and get a Storm, and I'd end up spending less than I would on a dedicated reader. Or I could go for the Android G1. I had one of those for a short while and didn't care for the keyboard, but I could probably get used to that faster than a virtual one. Of course, at the moment neither Mobipocket nor BN are supported on the G1...
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Most public libraries support PDF or ePUB and MOBI. Kindle eBooks make use of the format (MOBI) and use MOBI's DRM, what makes Kindle incompatible with MobiPocket is that the Kindle has a special PID unique to the Kindle. The MobiPocket software is not allowed to read those PIDs. So you can modify the MOBI files downloaded by the library to support the kindle PID or you can remove the DRM. That is your call on what is moral and ethical, personally I don't think it's right to remove DRM on a lent book, but you make your own call.
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Thanks again; this is very informative. I don't have any ethical objection to removing the DRM if the sole purpose of doing so is to read the book in exactly the way that the library intends. I doubt that the library intends their books to be read only on certain devices; they are as much the victims of the profusion of formats as the rest of us. In any case, it sounds like using the Kindle with lending libraries is complicated at best.
Todd