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Old 04-22-2010, 03:05 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
No, never participated in any Palm forums.

Amazon has two formats. One is basically mobipocket and can be liberated with mobidedrm. The other is Topaz... and while I'm pretty sure it has been cracked... I don't think the script was ever made public. Most of the Kindle books are mobipocket, while a very small percent, mostly backcatalog stuff is Topaz.

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Topaz can easily be liberated now, but converting it is a much more convoluted process. Can't just throw it into Calibre. And the results apparently vary, according to user reports it may take some effort to get good results. I personally had only 2 files (which I bought in the past before checking up first what format the books were in), those actually look very good in Epub now and I did nothing to fix them.

If you just remove the DRM but do not convert you can at least read them on any Kindle device or software.
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