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Originally Posted by poshm
Karma for your thoughts on the Kindle 2. I really like some aspects of the Kindle especially being able to essentially browse and buy books from any location. I also think that Amazon have a very good selection of ebooks even though the UK is limited to less -it's still better than WHSmiths or Waterstones!
The only thing which really puts me off pressing the buy button is that I want to actually own my ebooks and be able to put my library of books onto any device I buy - that can't happen with Amazon as they use their own propriatory format. If they sold .epub files I'd be in like a shot.
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You can easily do this through calibre. Calibre will convert .epub to .mobi (although I haven't tried this). however, gutenburg and other libraries have .epub and .mobi so it doesn't really make any difference.
however, if you buy DRM .mobi from waterstones, for example, you will need to strip the DRM out, which I am told is possible but I don't know how to do.
personally I would just keep books in .mobi format.
why don't you download calibre and try it out (its free). there is a PC viewer, so you can see the result in Windows (or Mac).
rgds