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Old 08-16-2009, 04:47 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by artemisblossom View Post
this may be a dumb question but if you burn them to cd could they then be loaded onto a different reader and work? What I am thinking of is say I burn all my books onto a cd and 2 years down the road I have changed readers could I still get these books to work (supposing I bought them from someplace like the sony store to begin with) Wouldn't the DRM make them useless?
DRM-free books will be readable on any device that supports the format. Most (though not all) formats can be shifted. For example, you can shift .LIT files to Mobipocket, ePub, eBookwise .IMP, or even Sony .LRF. You can shift Mobipocket and ePub. I don't know if it's possible to shift .IMP files, and the .LRF ones are problematic.

DRM can be removed from most formats -- .LRX being the best known exception -- if you are persistent enough to search for the routines that will unlock the books.
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