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Originally Posted by Edy
Dear all,
This is my first post in this forum and I thought this is the right thread to post my question.
I'm from Switzerland and have an iPad and a Kindle2. I love both devices. I do like the concept of Kindle to read on different platform and being able to sync bookmarks. In my job I'm an IT guy and bought the iPad especially for reading technical PDF. It's very good and I don't regret my purchases.
I have one issue  , which I believe I'm not alone living abroad. I do like from time to time reading books in German. I have realized surfing around the German or Swiss books store that their e-book are sold in epub format with Adobe DRM. Unfortunately the Kindle and the iPad won't support it and the selection of German books in those stores are very thin.
Therefore I would like to ask you guys, which e-reader is a good choice, which fits this requirement. I would have no problem to buy the device in the US. I haven't figured out if a Nook or a Kobo would be capable of Adobe DRM. I know Sony does and is offered by German/Swiss stores.
I don't want to spend to much for an Adobe DRM reader, since my main reading will always be in English.
What can you recommend?
Thank you
Edy |
As Sweetpea wrote: You can strip all DRMed content from DRM and convert to whatever format you need. I recommend "calibre" (there's another forum on this website for it) for converting between the various formats.
Stripping from DRM (= removing the copy protection) is easy enough: No programming, just installing Python and the respective Python scripts.
Scenario 1: Strip the ePUBs from DRM and use them on a ePUB-capable device. Most of the readers can do ePUB, it's more or less the standard. I can recommend: BeBook Neo, iRex 800, Sony 900 for example.
Scenario 2: You can read stripped ePUBs on iPad.
Scenario 3: You can convert stripped files to other formats, for example Mobipocket and read on other readers.